Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

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Author: sbulaev

Date: 7/19/2026

Article Summary:
A $5 ESP32 microcontroller is used to build a fully functional ad-blocking filter with over 500,000 domains blocked and around 10ms latency.