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Brave reduces the page load performance cost of its adblocker
- vlucas 5y agoBest paragraph in the article: So, what caused all this extra work that slowed down page loads? The majority of the work came from JavaScript that the Brave browser injected into every page to help its adblocker. Specifically, it was the cosmetic filter — a component responsible for adjusting page layouts to correct for breakages caused by adblocking. Brave’s developers didn’t need to work on the script to improve its performance; they needed to delete it.
- shapefrog 5y agoBrave have a good track record with injecting code into webpages /s
- ghuin 5y agoThey never did that.
- fuu_dev 5y agoI think he is referring to this: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...
- sieabah 5y agoHonestly I'd rather support a browser which did this than support the freemium sponsored-content approach the rest of the web have devolved into.
- commoner 5y agoFor those using uBlock Origin, you can control cosmetic filtering with the "Parse and enforce cosmetic filters" and "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" options on the "Filter lists" tab of the extension settings. The uBlock Origin toolbar button also lets you enable or disable cosmetic filtering on a per-domain basis. Disabling this may improve performance on slower/older devices, but I don't notice the speed difference with uBlock Origin's implementation on most recent devices.
- joedirt8383 5y agoLove brave, I can't say enough good things about it.