brave/adblock-rust
Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
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Where it stands
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The project lists 28 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #76 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 26, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a high-performance adblock engine in Rust supporting network blocking, cosmetic filtering, and resource replacements.
- Offers extensive syntax support including uBlock Origin and iOS content-blocking formats with native and WASM compilation.
- Use for integrating efficient adblocking in custom browsers or privacy-focused web clients.
- Use for building research tools that analyze or filter web content with flexible rule parsing and validation.
- Use for developing proxies or network filters requiring thread-safe, extensible adblock capabilities with external domain resolution.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Weak copyleft: changes to the licensed code itself must be shared when you distribute it, but code that merely uses it can stay under your own license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
adblock-rustis used in several projects, including browsers, research tools, and proxies. It may be a good fit for yours, too!See docs.rs for detailed API documentation.
Also check the Rust example or the NodeJS example.
The following
cargofeatures can be used to tweakadblock-rustto best fit your use-case.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
262+23
Open issues
99+7
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| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| brave/adblock-rust | 2.9K | — | 22 | — |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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