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Re:Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype by tyingq on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:41PM (#19088971)
Chrome is about ready to hobble ad blockers[1]. So soon, Firefox will be faster for many sites with ads.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...

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Re:Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype by vorpalhex on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:33PM (#19089498)
That's only a proposal and it was put out to get community feedback (which was overwhelmingly negative...)
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Re:Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype by tyingq on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:30PM (#19090023)
There's an open issue[1] with people assigned to it. And even documentation for the new hobbled API that is available in both the beta and dev channels[2].

Feels a bit past being a proposal.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897

[2] https://developers.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReque...

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Re:Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype by microcolonel on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:20PM (#19089384)
Chromium still being the better browser in most ways, I wonder what could be done about this. Maybe it's time to have a simple patchset for doing content blocking natively in the engine. With patches like that floating around, they can't very well say that it's an efficiency issue like they do in the doc describing Manifest V3.
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