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How is "tracking protection", as nice as it may be, a "performance boost"?
by tomsmeding 9y ago
How is "tracking protection", as nice as it may be, a "performance boost"?
- gopalv 9y agoThis is not the "Do Not Track", this is a block list from disconnect.me. If someone used a single pixel beacon, only mined referrers, that wouldn't be the case, but the additional javascript does cause performance issues.
- asadotzler 9y agoBy not loading trackers, the browser is freed to spend all its resources loading actual content of the page. This speeds up page load by as much as 40%.
- bonsai80 9y agoSorry for the confusion; I didn't mean to group those together. I meant that I'd lost sight of other nice features with all the excitement of Firefox performance lately.
- SimeVidas 9y agoTracking Protection blocks network requests to domains that are identified as trackers. This means that tracking scripts don’t load (faster page load) and run (more responsive web page).
- Sylos 9y agoPaper detailling the "as much as 40%" figure that Asa Dotzler mentioned: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2SP/papers/W2SP_2015_submission_32.pdf http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2SP/papers/W2SP_201...