Subj : Re: bogged down by trackers
To   : August Abolins
From : Jay Harris
Date : Wed Feb 17 2021 03:16 pm

On 17 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 
 AA> Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial  
 AA> sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have  
 AA> really slowed down?

 AA> I use an adblocker. It "counts" the hits that it encounters. The  
 AA> 3 sites that I mention above consistently reach 20+.  The sites  
 AA> are very sluggish to respond until the blocker is finished.

 AA> Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in that  
 AA> regard.

Which blocker are you using?  I use "uBlock Origin" (ublockorigin.com) and find it quite speedy.  It was described on the Security Now podcast as more of an "HTML Firewall" than a blocker as it stops things from being processed or even fetched saving you battery power & bandwidth.

It really hit home how well that extension works when a friend brought up speedtest.net and there were more advertisements than content on the screen.


With uBlock enabled:
https://ibb.co/swBmzyv

Without uBlock enabled:
https://ibb.co/8DrjJz8


Jay

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