Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by Already__Taken on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:59AM
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That's not a bug IMO I want Chrome to be as fast as possible and especially not to wait for 3rd party calls. This is a design compromise not malicious. FF themselves have complained many of their bug reports and complaints are generated by plugins and directed at Firefox.
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Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by cookiengineer on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:40AM
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Not wait for third party calls, but wait for third party calls from _remote_ third party websites?
Your logic is utterly flawed.
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by formerly_proven on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:42AM
(#38095561)
On the cosmological scale, it's all nearby.
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by cookiengineer on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:40AM
(#38096247)
I'm still waiting for someone to calculate the years of lifetime an average human wastes on advertisements that cannot be skipped.
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by throwaway141455 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:03AM
(#38095357)
"I want my browser to load ads as fast as possible" is an interesting take
Why did you make a new account just for this comment?
Some people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?
could it be automated?
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by Condition1952 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:49AM
(#38097052)
I like destroying accounts from time to time. Prevents becoming attached, identifying you with your comments, flushes your permanent record, etc.
Besides, it’s a pain in the ass and you might get banned so you end up working fewer hours for the website.
People with careers are getting cancelled because of their opinions published online. Nudging people to identify themselves online is inviting them to dig a grave
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by andyjohnson0 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:22AM
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It's possible that they work for an ad company, or aspire to do so, or work in a business where saying anything even mildly disparaging about adtech could be problematic.
which is why uBO has the option to delay, but also to disable this delay (which relies on firefox enabling the capability to make a choice). Why can't chrome also let the plugin (and by proxy, the end user) decide?
If you want your Chrome to be as fast as possible, you would get rid of all extensions you have. It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp.
Hence calling it a feature, not a bug is rather misleading. Since you went and installed plugins understanding that it might and it will affect your workflow.
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by hackideiomat on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:34AM
(#38096207)
Usually, ad blockers will dramatically improve a websites performance
Pre-manifest V3, when OnBeforeRequest actually blocked requests before they were downloaded, browsing typical sites with it enabled was objectively faster than with it off. Any overhead was pretty quickly recovered in not downloading the ads.
Many benchmarks proved that. Here's one: https://whatsoftware.com/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-fo...
Re:uBlock-Origin – 1.53.0
by LightHugger on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:50AM
(#38096672)
waiting for ublock improves website performance. there is no design compromise.