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"I want my browser to load ads as fast as possible" is an interesting take

Why did you make a new account just for this comment?

Some people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?

I like destroying accounts from time to time. Prevents becoming attached, identifying you with your comments, flushes your permanent record, etc.

Besides, it’s a pain in the ass and you might get banned so you end up working fewer hours for the website.

People with careers are getting cancelled because of their opinions published online. Nudging people to identify themselves online is inviting them to dig a grave

could it be automated?

It's possible that they work for an ad company, or aspire to do so, or work in a business where saying anything even mildly disparaging about adtech could be problematic.

which is why uBO has the option to delay, but also to disable this delay (which relies on firefox enabling the capability to make a choice). Why can't chrome also let the plugin (and by proxy, the end user) decide?

Not wait for third party calls, but wait for third party calls from _remote_ third party websites?

Your logic is utterly flawed.

On the cosmological scale, it's all nearby.

waiting for ublock improves website performance. there is no design compromise.

If you want your Chrome to be as fast as possible, you would get rid of all extensions you have. It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp.

Hence calling it a feature, not a bug is rather misleading. Since you went and installed plugins understanding that it might and it will affect your workflow.

> It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp

Pre-manifest V3, when OnBeforeRequest actually blocked requests before they were downloaded, browsing typical sites with it enabled was objectively faster than with it off. Any overhead was pretty quickly recovered in not downloading the ads.

Many benchmarks proved that. Here's one: https://whatsoftware.com/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-fo...

So, unless you're browsing exclusively all ad-free sites, it very much DOES matter, or used to.

Usually, ad blockers will dramatically improve a websites performance

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