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You're going to love Tracking Protection: http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/tracking-protection-in-firefox.html http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot
by nnethercote 12y ago
You're going to love Tracking Protection: http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/tracking-protection-in-firefox.html http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/tracking-pr...
It's an in-development feature to block parts of websites that track you. In practice, it mostly blocks ads, and it blocks most ads. And it doesn't have the performance/memory hit of AdBlock Plus for two reasons:
* The domain matching is simpler (no regexps) and thus much faster.
* It doesn't use CSS to fix up the layout of pages that have had ads removed; it just leaves blank white rectangles. (AdBlock Plus has lots of complex and even site-specific CSS code to do this.)
(I've been told this by one of the Tracking Protection developers, though I may have got the details slightly wrong.)
In testing done by its developers, it speeds up the load time of the median page by 20%! So overall it gives more privacy, less page clutter, and faster browsing. Fantastic stuff.
- tracker1 12y agoWhat's funny is when you take the time to ensure than your layout will reflow nicely with ad blockers.. actually having the empty spaces is a bit worse imho. Wondering about catching on-error events for iframes.. or load errors, etc... that may help in detection, and reflow. I'm more concerned about things continuing to look nice with adblockers than circumventing them.