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Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by odonnellryan »

vmarsy wrote: post #11

Benchmarks are good but the overall experience is what matters the most. I'm really impressed by the startup time of Edge. I type some query in the Cortana search bar and press Enter, it launches Edge extremely fast. So far I really love the performance. However to make it my main browser I'm still waiting for adblocking extensions. I browse with a few tabs opened, one of them start randomly playing an ad video, at l…

Two things prevented me from making it my main browser:

1) It did lock up randomly. Not sure why. Seemed to happen often on many different sites. 2) The one or two pixel buffer on the left of the back button! (I should just use keybinds... but you know)

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by joshuapants »

0xFFC wrote: post #115
joshuapants wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Site owners has right to make living to Site owners have the right to make a living. They do not have a right to waste my bandwidth, damage my hearing, or compromise my security. > I think using ads-blocker is selfish act Perhaps, but it's a reaction to the considerably more selfish trend in advertising.

Did you even read whole comment?

I did.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by jjaredsimpson »

globuous wrote: post #107
lewisl9029 wrote: post #73

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Alt + d also works, and I feel it's more convenient since it can be easily triggered using just the left hand.

This is a great example of why I prefer using alt or cmd with shortcuts rather than ctrl. I find altGr+L or cmd+L much more convinient than ctrl+L. Actually, I wouldn't use that shortcut nearly as often if I had to deal with the ctrl key. I hate that pinky stretch. So thanks for that alt+D tip, 'did not know of it ;)

I've remapped caps lock to ctrl, there's also the possibility to use the palm for ctrl not the pinky.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by err4nt »

andybak wrote: post #113
Loque wrote: post #109

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I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.

Not OP but I develop websites and consult for companies on web matters. I need to experience the web day to day the same way most other people do otherwise I have a rather distorted picture of things.

I don't mind paid advertising, but I dislike the tracking and profiling and sale of my information so for a while I was using Privacy Badger and other 'smart' ad-blocking anti-tracking plugins that learned.

As a web dev, it was blocking a lot of my CDN-hosted files to the point that I would need to work in other browser to make sure it wasn't really broken. Removing the ad-blockers restored normal function to me.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by recursive »

kiiski wrote: post #117
robmcm wrote: post #116

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You may also want a website you a reading to stay in business and proffit from their work. I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.

How would ad networks respond to that? I can't think of any technically possible way for them to do that (except somehow getting operating systems to build in some crazy DRM scheme).

By making ads indistinguishable from content. Or serving content from ad servers.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by recursive »

Loque wrote: post #109
recursive wrote: post #98

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That's not really true. I don't use ad blockers, but I still care about my browser speed.

I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.

I'm kind of opposed to the concept. If a web site is serving a page that is annoying to use, my solution is to not use it. I don't feel like doing usability improvements that should be done by the site operator.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by robmcm »

kiiski wrote: post #117
robmcm wrote: post #116

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You may also want a website you a reading to stay in business and proffit from their work. I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.

How would ad networks respond to that? I can't think of any technically possible way for them to do that (except somehow getting operating systems to build in some crazy DRM scheme).

Simply serving the adds from the same domain as the content. Ad blockers are really simple currently.

After that I imagine the blockers could step it up and start looking for script names, or reporting on common scripts shared accross domains, by which point we are in an arms race :)

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by kedean »

kiiski wrote: post #117
robmcm wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may also want a website you a reading to stay in business and proffit from their work. I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.

How would ad networks respond to that? I can't think of any technically possible way for them to do that (except somehow getting operating systems to build in some crazy DRM scheme).

Sure there is, you start making the distinction between ads and regular content impossible. If all of the images on the site and all of the ads all map to something like www.sitename.com/resource/somekindofhash, then how would you tell programmatically whats an ad? You could even assign each visitor a mapping seed, so that caching still works. Blocking would have to be done on a user-by-user basis, turning this into a MAD-scenario, where some users just start blocking EVERYTHING that isn't textual or generated.

Re: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

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Post by Loque »

robmcm wrote: post #116
Loque wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.

You may also want a website you a reading to stay in business and proffit from their work. I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.

There are responsible ways to advertise which I completely agree with (that the adblocker I use respects) - and personally I do make an effort to turn it off for sites with a polite message and clearly need the revenue to function... however it gives me a warm feeling when getting caught out by linkbait articles that I am not feeding a fire I dislike.
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