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Does this mean every page is loading faster? Or do they just hang halfway trying to load ads?

• bee_rider 4y ago
  Should be faster I think. Pihole just refuses to resolve ads servers and generally improves performance, right?
  • kevingadd 4y ago
    If the ad server is instead taking a long time to respond, it'll probably make pages load slower.
    • Waterluvian 4y ago
      Only very very poorly built websites. So all the news sites.
    • bee_rider 4y ago
      There are definitely a thousand people here more qualified on this stuff (I write Fortran lol) but I thought JavaScript was all asynchronous now? Shouldn’t the actually desired content load independently of the ads?
      • mooooooooooooo 4y ago
        Fortran is cool, what do you work on?
        • bee_rider 4y ago
          Parallel linear system solvers. Grad student, so mostly I use Fortran so it’ll plug into my professor’s code more easily, haha. No complaints, though. It is a fine language.
      • nimchimpsky 4y ago
    • more_corn 4y ago
      Requests for remote content don’t delay rendering of the page. Everything will be significantly faster.
• powvans 4y ago
  Anecdotally it feels like all of these sites are super fast right now. I even reinstalled the heinous Weather Channel app and it’s working wonderfully. With ads that app is essentially unusable on an iPhone 14.
• kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  CNN is zippy without the chumboxes. Time to party like it's 1999.