From 3284d32056e312769bac5f69aa3c2b7ea98355ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hill Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:19:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Regular expression based filters (markdown) --- Regular-expression-based-filters.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Regular-expression-based-filters.md b/Regular-expression-based-filters.md index 0a4afb9..35131d2 100644 --- a/Regular-expression-based-filters.md +++ b/Regular-expression-based-filters.md @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ It is not recommended to use regex-based filters, hence why I chose for a long t However this led to the often-repeated myth that the reason µBlock was efficient memory- and CPU-wise was because it did not support regex-based filters, a completely nonsensical assertion, given that there is a grand total of only 15 such filters in all of _EasyList_ (at time of writing) out of tens of thousands. -It is because of this myth that I finally decided to support regex-based filters with version 0.8.6.0. +It is because of this myth that I finally decided to support regex-based filters with version 0.8.6.0: + +![regex-based filter at work](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/5883114/606b7838-a31d-11e4-98e5-1e9ea47e3308.png) Given the way µBlock works internally, the regex-based filters are implemented in a more efficient way than other big-name blockers.