Cache adblock DATs clientside #27161
Labels
enhancement
feature/shields/adblock
Blocking ads & trackers with Shields
OS/Android
Fixes related to Android browser functionality
OS/Desktop
We switched adblock lists to be served as plaintext components rather than serialized DATs in brave/brave-core#15077. Loading adblock lists from plaintext is slightly slower than loading from a serialized DAT, although it leaves us the option of serializing them clientside to the newer uncompressed format which can be deserialized significantly faster. As per brave/brave-core#15077:
Brave should create a cached adblock DAT whenever lists are modified, and load this on startup to reduce load at browser-launch. Also, there is currently no code in place to prevent pages from loading before the adblock engines are ready, so this is important to help ads be caught on startup.
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