Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilemma of ad-blocking

Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by frik on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:13AM (#10697235)

WashingtonPost.com serves many ads and consumes too much memory resources - thanks for crashing my Safari (iPad) while reading the article, a very unnerving moment.

I still have no Safari adblocker installed, as I believe in ads. But such bad ads citizens needs a disruption ala Google text-based Ads 10 years ago that changed the ads landscape.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by frik on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:23PM (#10698248)

Ghostery found:

  Amazon Associates (Advertising, Affiliate Marketing)
  ChartBeat (Analytics)
  Criteo (Advertising, Search)
  DoubleClick (Advertising)
  Effective Measure (Analytics, Analytics)
  Krux Digital (Beacons)
  MediaMath (Advertising)
  Moat (Advertising)
  Omniture - Adobe Analytics (Beacons)
  OpenX (Advertising)
  Outbrain (Widgets)
  Polar Mobile (Advertising)
  Sailthru Horizon (Beacons)
  ScoreCard Research Beacon (Beacons, Analytics)
  Twitter Button (Widgets, Social)

Way too much "Analytics" in the list.

116 requests; onload: 7.77s

Chrome DevTools timing said:

2.71s Scripting; 636ms Rendering; 210ms Painting

Dozens of reflows are visible in the flame graph! Poor mobile devices, such websites eat battery like there's no tomorrow. Summary: One hell of a page.

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Re:Mozilla’s newest app perfectly captures the ethical dilem... by Symbiote on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:58AM (#10697623)

Ghostery counts 16 things to block on the article's page, and without it I was shown two large, animated adverts.

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