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This is a worthy research topic. On mobile, with slower networks and much worse CPUs, uBlock often completely changes the experience. (thanks Mozilla!) I would note though that only example.com was examined (and apple.com in one test). I also did not see information if tests were repeated, as no variance/stddev is given. I'd expect it to be pretty high.
> "DDG Privacy Essentials does a simple object property lookup based on the request domain, an operation that is practically instantaneous" This sounds interesting. A bit of searching is not providing much enlightenment - anyone care to explain in a bit more detail? Also, if it is so fast, why aren't all the filter add-ons doing it?
This is a worthy research topic. On mobile, with slower networks and much worse CPUs, uBlock often completely changes the experience. (thanks Mozilla!) I would note though that only example.com was examined (and apple.com in one test). I also did not see information if tests were repeated, as no variance/stddev is given. I'd expect it to be pretty high.
How are you installing Firefox extensions in mobile? Is it Android only?
Some Chromium based Android browsers do as well.
This is a worthy research topic. On mobile, with slower networks and much worse CPUs, uBlock often completely changes the experience. (thanks Mozilla!) I would note though that only example.com was examined (and apple.com in one test). I also did not see information if tests were repeated, as no variance/stddev is given. I'd expect it to be pretty high.
How are you installing Firefox extensions in mobile? Is it Android only?
> "DDG Privacy Essentials does a simple object property lookup based on the request domain, an operation that is practically instantaneous" This sounds interesting. A bit of searching is not providing much enlightenment - anyone care to explain in a bit more detail? Also, if it is so fast, why aren't all the filter add-ons doing it?
This is a worthy research topic. On mobile, with slower networks and much worse CPUs, uBlock often completely changes the experience. (thanks Mozilla!) I would note though that only example.com was examined (and apple.com in one test). I also did not see information if tests were repeated, as no variance/stddev is given. I'd expect it to be pretty high.
How are you installing Firefox extensions in mobile? Is it Android only?
Firefox for iOS is not really Firefox.
Not at all surprising that the worst two extensions by a long way are both from Avira. Yesterday I opened Chrome and received a warning that the Avira extension had been installed. I certainly did not install it willingly. I'm pretty sure I didn't install any other software that sneakily bundled it recently, either - I mean, I'm 99.9% sure that I haven't installed _any_ software in the past week. So how why did it su…
If Avira has a pay-per-install program, I would say it's pretty likely that you're part of a botnet.
> a website allowlist Ridiculous. It's even called whitelist in the code snippet.
Why do you want to fight over a word if you're able to understand everything and good people are trying to reduce bias in human life? Every word that is commonly or uncommonly used has a physiological impact on perception that is not directly measurable and causes biases. In this case, whitelist = white = allow = positive. Blacklist = black = block = negative. Do you want peoples brain to subconsciously associate wor…
That's a nonsense argument. Understanding is a continuum. Not using standard words makes things less understandable. If you really think that it doesn't matter as long as people understand you, why bother with spelling and grammar? u cn stll und3rsnd m3 ryte?
> In this case, whitelist = white = allow = positive. Blacklist = black = block = negative.
I'm pretty sure almost no black people care about this. They care about actual racial abuse, like being called nigger or being denied jobs because they are black. They don't care about words that just happen to have "black" in them and more than I care about words that happen to have "white" in them, like whitewash and whitebait.
The reason this annoys people so much is because it is dumb virtue signalling that completely ignores the actual issues. It trivialises them. Everyone can feel happy that we call blackboards chalk boards, but it has exactly zero effect on racism, and anyone calling that out is derided as insensitive.
Great research! I'm a user of evernote web clipper and seeing that they're adding 3mb to every page that I'm using is extremely discouraging. My browse to clip ratio is around 1000:1 and I'm probably removing the extension after this. Just wondering, can browser extensions codesplit their bundles? If it's possible, then it is really disappointing to see these large companies loading huge bundles on initial load.