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Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam by dingaling on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:55AM (#12342072)
> As a side effect disabling javascript also makes pages load faster

Ironically on our rather elderly laptops NoScript actually increases page loading times by a factor of two and that's with the out-of-the-box configuration. I haven't looked to see what pattern-matching algorithms it uses but they're very slow.

Core2 Duo Dell Latitudes.

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Re:Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam by codedokode on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:43PM (#12348662)
Because it is a browser extension which by itself is quite complicated application. I use builtin JS blocking options in Chromium and didn't notice any slowdown.
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