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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by josephg on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:39PM (#38045361)
Thankfully, the biggest ad company - Google - would hate it because it would dramatically reduce page performance. And webpage performance apparently has a big impact on ad clickthrough rates.
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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by rvnx on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:16PM (#38046066)
Not displaying the ad has even a bigger impact on the clickthrough rates
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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by tentacleuno on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:34PM (#38046212)
Couldn't they just optimize Chromium to work (faster for APIs they require, etc.) around performance problems?
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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by josephg on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:03PM (#38046689)
If chromium can write special case detection & optimizations for this javascript code, ad blockers can probably do the same.
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