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I appreciate the step forward, but what I really want is for my browser to block: * Battery-draining junk code * Bandwidth-hogging videos and GIFs * Spreadin
by apeace 9y ago
I appreciate the step forward, but what I really want is for my browser to block:
* Battery-draining junk code
* Bandwidth-hogging videos and GIFs
* Spreading information about me cross-origin
I would take an annoying page-covering PNG that I can close, over a tiny banner doing animations in Javascript, an auto-play video, a huge GIF which is basically a video, or the countless trackers which build databases about every site I visit.
As such this change will not entice me to disable my ad blocker. Not even close.
- lolsal 9y agoGenuinely curious: How would you programmatically identify "battery-draining junk code"? Also, what is your threshold for 'bandwidth-hogging' videos and GIFs? Do you trust content-lengths from the server?
- apeace 9y agoI don't have a solution other than whitelisting or blacklisting, which is what I use the ad blockers for.