Comment by preg_match

22 days ago

Chromium is technically faster but in practice it doesn’t matter if you don’t have an adblocker. Adblocking significantly lowers render and JS load and lessens memory pressure. It varies site to site, but keep in mind that ads have to be fetched and then displayed. That’s not free.

Firefox with uBlock origin is basically as fast as a web browser can get.

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esseph  22 days ago

> It varies site to site, but keep in mind that ads have to be fetched and then displayed. That’s not free.

Move your ad blocking to a different layer. Like say, network level.

  • preg_match  22 days ago

    This can be done but it’s not sophisticated enough for many ads. Websites are smart and will smuggle ads through known-good domains that you can’t block. You really need to be able to navigate the dom and use JS heuristics to identify ads and popups.

  • qweqwe14  22 days ago

    You could, but at the very least you'd need to MITM all HTTPS, and that means installing your own CA on all devices

qweqwe14  22 days ago

uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO. Why do people pretend it doesn't exist?

  • preg_match  22 days ago

    Because it doesn’t work just as well, because the blocking is less dynamic and filter lists are more out of date. For simple ad blocking scenarios it’s fine, but it will actually miss some ads on some websites.