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I have only my memories, which is what IIRC means: “if I remember correctly”. A few seconds of searching offers no better answer, so you’ll simply have to downv

I have only my memories, which is what IIRC means: “if I remember correctly”. A few seconds of searching offers no better answer, so you’ll simply have to downvote me and move on. (For those who want to investigate further, I believe it was about a year ago and would have been on planet.mozilla.org at the time. No, I didn’t post it to HN because I don’t usually consider anti-adblock positions to be safe to discuss here.)

Fnoord 8y ago
After I made my previous post you added a source about _ABP_ being a memory hog. Show me a source that uBlock Origin is a memory hog compared to vanilla and ABP. This article [1] shows how ABP is, indeed, a resource hog, compared to uBlock Origin. It also shows that pages load quicker with uBlock Origin than vanilla. Its an article from 2 years ago though. This article [2] talks about how in december 2018 uBlock Origin uses WASM for better performance. It includes a link to benchmark the software. This article [3] from begin 2019 compares the performance of different adblockers (the article is by the authors of Ghostery though therefore I link to the Reddit discussion). [1] https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/ https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested... [2] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/03/ublock-origin-performance-improvements-thanks-to-wasm-firefox-only-for-now/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/03/ublock-origin-performance-... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ar7a3m/adblockers_performance_study/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ar7a3m/adbloc...