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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by d3nj4l on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:58PM (#24714578)
> The user agent will still be able to choose what to display

Isn't one of the biggest advantages of ad blocking that it can cut your bandwidth use? I mean, if you aren't going to show the ads, why download them in the first place?

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by wmf on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:28AM (#24716429)
Browser extension ad blockers block requests before they are made which does save bandwidth. This still has nothing to do with QUIC.
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