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Privoxy is awesome.

I was using it for a while in place of AdBlock because of the memory issues associated with the Chrome AdBlock extension (Gmail would regularly and quickly balloon to 1-1.5GB of memory usage).

I recently moved over to µBlock to give it a shot, and pages seem to load faster than through Privoxy (plus I can use QUIC on Google services since there's no proxy), but I haven't had an opportunity yet to test the memory implications.

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I can highly recommend µBlock as a alternative on ABP. The developer has written a whole page on the github wiki regarding performance implications of ABP [1]. The more advanced extension µMatrix is also very much worth checking out. It is kind of a alternative of Noscript/RequestPolicy in one on chrome based browsers[2].The developer is very serious with the development and responds quickly on issues.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

Really looking forward to μblock being ported to Firefox ... any timeline?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/27#issuecomment-673...

Thank you. I'm now testing the latest.

The best is that it does not make you depend on some plugin. Whatever experimentation with web browsers (dwb, luakit, ...), and the odd mail client that needs to access the web: The ad blocking just works. It is a solution implemented at the right layer.

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