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Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Apple is supposedly getting into the search engine business. It'd be great if they and Mozilla got together, both companies believe in user privacy and could complement each other in getting things down

Apple believes in user privacy. Your naïveté is touching.

Instead of condescension, please provide some sources and state your beliefs in a productive way.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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I justed visited https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ and browsed the source, and they still have the Google Analytics tracking crap on their website. Strange for a company that claims to be "committed to your privacy."

And in case anyone is wondering, turning on Firefox's experimental Tracking Protection feature does block Google Analytics on Mozilla's own web site.

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I'd also like a comparison with ublock and/or ghostery. It appears that this becomes enabled after the blocking plugins.

ublock is more about ads, and this is tracking. While they usually come hand in hand, Facebook ads (eg: while on facebook) don't add additional tracking.

So perhaps it's more like ghostery than an adblocker.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is supposedly getting into the search engine business. It'd be great if they and Mozilla got together, both companies believe in user privacy and could complement each other in getting things down

Apple believes in user privacy. Your naïveté is touching.

Well, Apple makes most money with hardware. Unlike Google who makes most money with ads. So at least in theory Apple can more easily invest in privacy.

EDIT: Check their last quarter's results, Apple makes only 6% of their revenue with online services: https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/q1fy15datasum.pdf

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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I would love for Mozilla to find other means of funding online content besides advertising. In either case I'd love to see them take a hard stance on privacy and against tracking. They should block trackers that have no effect on website features and restrict and monitor the ones that do effect features. ...and this is another reason Mozilla needs to have their own search engine. They could have much greater influenc…

Apple is supposedly getting into the search engine business. It'd be great if they and Mozilla got together, both companies believe in user privacy and could complement each other in getting things down

IMO DuckDuckGo is the obvious choice of who to partner with. DDG already focuses on privacy as a defining feature, its why I use then as my primary search engine.

Seems like a win win for both Mozilla and DDG.

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Weird. If browsers can detect these trackers, could an alternative be to just de-prioritize the trackers, so they load last and won't slow down page load time (since I assume they're invisible anyway?)

This should be doable for well-written trackers like Google Analytics that use script tags with the "async" attribute. In fact, those are probably already likely to load after the main content.

For ads or trackers that are embedded as img or iframe elements, I think this is also viable and could speed up page load time.

For ads or trackers that use inline scripts or non-"async" script tags to load content, the web browser has to block while loading/running the script, or risk breaking the page. Otherwise things like document.write() would have incorrect results when the script runs later.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Apple believes in user privacy. Your naïveté is touching.

Instead of condescension, please provide some sources and state your beliefs in a productive way.

I think that was more or less the point of the GP minus the condescension bit. Making unqualified statements about what you believe about a large corporation is roughly on par with contesting that particular belief.

Re: Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%

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Apple is supposedly getting into the search engine business. It'd be great if they and Mozilla got together, both companies believe in user privacy and could complement each other in getting things down

IMO DuckDuckGo is the obvious choice of who to partner with. DDG already focuses on privacy as a defining feature, its why I use then as my primary search engine. Seems like a win win for both Mozilla and DDG.

Unfortunately they lack a lot of the features that make Google useful.

Like limiting by when the page appeared.

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