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>I constantly see people using few years old iPhone 4S or 7 years old MacBooks. Ask them how their user experience with those devices is. I know people who ar

>I constantly see people using few years old iPhone 4S or 7 years old MacBooks. Ask them how their user experience with those devices is. I know people who are still running 4s', and it's bad. Why can't my older iPad use ad-blocking? It says it's performance related, but isn't the ad-blocking supposed to improve performance? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to older devices? Nope, if I want it, get a new device. I have and use many Apple devices. But a computer is a computer; let's not pretend that Apple has avoided hardware becoming outdated. I'm sure people hold onto their old devices because they're expensive a maintain some social cachet.

bsdetector 11y ago
Regex matching on 40,000 expressions for every resource takes a lot of work. Even with native code generation, which Apple would have to do extra work for 32-bit CPUs, it would add seconds to each page load on those old phones.
rsynnott 11y ago
> Why can't my older iPad use ad-blocking? It says it's performance related, but isn't the ad-blocking supposed to improve performance? Where does it say that? Lack of ad-blocking on older (pre-iPad Air, I think) iPads isn't performance related, it's because they're 32bit. A lot of Apple's new OS features are 64bit only.