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Thanks for the interesting read! Just right off the bat, I’m a little cautious of benchmarks done by Ghostery that happens to show Ghostery is incredibly fast.

Thanks for the interesting read! Just right off the bat, I’m a little cautious of benchmarks done by Ghostery that happens to show Ghostery is incredibly fast. Not that anything else stood out to me as suspicious, just a comment. Perhaps they are The fastest _because_ they are benchmarking and have fixed bottlenecks. Beyond all that, I’m a huge fan of ad blockers and use them as an attempt to reduce tracking and targeting and it’s abundantly clear to me that they greatly speed up many webpages. The amount of junk that so many sites load, no doubt it even saves me data on my data plan. It seems like common sense to not trust a company whose main income is based on advertising to be making decisions on ad blocking.

pythux 8y ago
Thanks a lot for your comment. The project is open source and everything needed to run the study comparisons is available as well there: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker/tree/master/bench/comparison https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker/tree/master/bench/com... We would be really happy to see people running the same benchmarks and try to reproduce the results!
- alextooter 8y ago
  Hi,thanks for this fast ad-block software. After I give it a try,it does not provide an option let me subscribe easylist or something like that.Then I open a website,lots of ads are still there,right click on ad image,there is no option to remove them. From a user opinion,it may not ready for everyday using.