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It just sucks that ad-blockers are so slow. Do you have a really fast page without ads? Then using a plugin for ad-blocking will make the experience noticeably
by NightlyDev 7y ago
It just sucks that ad-blockers are so slow. Do you have a really fast page without ads? Then using a plugin for ad-blocking will make the experience noticeably slower, often going from no noticeable delay to "this isn't instant". Whitelisting the page doesn't really help much either, at least not in ABP.
- alpaca128 7y agoAdblock Plus sells whitelist entries to companies, so I wouldn't use that anyway. I mainly block ads with the hosts file, works fine for 99% of all ads. Although I still also run uBlock Origin to get rid of all the annoying popups and banners as well. Now the only thing I'm missing is a filter that blocks all videos from even loading(because turning off autoplay does not work on many sites).
- zeta0134 7y agoSlightly off-topic, but I realized that sites which really want the video to play will start playing the video when you scroll. I believe this works because the scroll event is considered user-triggered, and sticking the "play video" trigger on that event means the browser won't block it. This is gross. NoScript fixes pretty much all of these workarounds. But I don't need to use that really; sites which autoplay video have an "x" button in the tab, which stops the video from playing. I just use that, and move on.