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preg_matchtoday at 1:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

Chromium is technically faster but in practice it doesn’t matter if you don’t have an adblocker. Adblocking significantly lowers render and JS load and lessens memory pressure. It varies site to site, but keep in mind that ads have to be fetched and then displayed. That’s not free.

Firefox with uBlock origin is basically as fast as a web browser can get.


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qweqwe14today at 3:01 PM

uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO. Why do people pretend it doesn't exist?

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essephtoday at 1:38 PM

> It varies site to site, but keep in mind that ads have to be fetched and then displayed. That’s not free.

Move your ad blocking to a different layer. Like say, network level.

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