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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by anotherhue »

gorhill wrote: post #99
mbirth wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a direct fork, it’s currently 2282 commits ahead, 586 commits behind your uBlock. That amounts to about the commits since uBlock 1.29.0 - which is exactly the version they’re claiming to use. But yes, who knows what they’ve changed.

It's not just the code, it's also about what is not filtered in Adnauseum that would normally be filtered in uBO with default settings/lists.

Please allow me this minor hijacking to express my complete and absolute gratitude for your efforts in developing uBO.

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by these_are_not_t »

bastawhiz wrote: post #108
these_are_not_t wrote: post #107

Tangential question: are there other giveaways than download time for a cached document which could be used by malicious scripts? I ask because I don't understand why a zero download time for a cached document couldn't be simply masked by some (random) wait by the browser instead of downloading the file again. From the chrome update page linked in the article, the explanation is: > However, the time a website takes t…

Browsers are mitigating what you described with cache partitioning. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...

thx

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by jeofken »

wolco2 wrote: post #112
jeofken wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Browsing the web is equivalent of your butler shouting to another butler to please GET /some/page, and the other butler then kindly replying with a document. Theft requires the action to not be voluntary, but a web server replying with a page is free to reject my request. It is entirely moral.

The torrent accepts my clients request. My mp3 player will play that song you downloaded as well. It's like your butler downloading a torrent with a song played to you. I won't argue pirating is not moral. But it has the same morality as blocking ads.

I agree that copyright law does not make sense

Re: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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Post by gruturo »

gorhill wrote: post #99
mbirth wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a direct fork, it’s currently 2282 commits ahead, 586 commits behind your uBlock. That amounts to about the commits since uBlock 1.29.0 - which is exactly the version they’re claiming to use. But yes, who knows what they’ve changed.

It's not just the code, it's also about what is not filtered in Adnauseum that would normally be filtered in uBO with default settings/lists.

Thank you so much for umatrix (I know, discontinued) and UBO, Raymond, and thanks to all the filter list maintainers.
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