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From my experience of using this for a few weeks now on Chrome, I would recommend this over AdBlock Plus etc. I haven't done any specific performance tests and

From my experience of using this for a few weeks now on Chrome, I would recommend this over AdBlock Plus etc. I haven't done any specific performance tests and personally no numbers to back it up. However, I do have the subjective impression of improvement. I'm using it in combination with µMatrix.

rahimnathwani 12y ago
> I'm using it in combination with µMatrix. I'm curious: how do you use it? Do you have to mass-enable stuff using the 'power' icon, for many sites? Or do you just enable the things you know you need, on a per-site basis? Or are your default just good enough? The reason I ask is that I was curious about it, so tried it out for a couple of days. I found many sites were not usable with the default settings, e.g. Udemy's login box didn't show up until I turned off µMatrix.
- mziulu 12y ago
  I haven't used uMatrix, since I use Firefox, but I can speak for RequestPolicy, which is kind of the same thing basically AFAICS. It's very very very rare that I end up whitelisting everything that's requested on a site. The more you use the extension, the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended, and this way you end up building your own whitelist: allowing requests from a domain is a one-time only thing most of the times (additionally, there's an extension you can install that syncs your whitelist to your Firefox Sync account).
  - the8472 12y ago
    > the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended Sites using cloudflare are a major issue here, specifically their cryptic subdomains. If someone were to hide an ad network behind those they would be hard to tell apart from the rest, at least for humans.
    - mziulu 12y ago
      Yes this is true. If a site is not working and the only reasonable domain to allow is something from cloudflare, I resort to allowing it temporarily. Not many ways around that, I think.
oe 12y ago
On my slightly older MBP (2011) the plugin caused performance issues. Mainly hanging when opening a new tab and navigating somewhere. Other extensions have had same problems, so I might need to move into filtering ads at network level.

rahimnathwani 12y ago

> I'm using it in combination with µMatrix. I'm curious: how do you use it? Do you have to mass-enable stuff using the 'power' icon, for many sites? Or do you just enable the things you know you need, on a per-site basis? Or are your default just good enough? The reason I ask is that I was curious about it, so tried it out for a couple of days. I found many sites were not usable with the default settings, e.g. Udemy's login box didn't show up until I turned off µMatrix.

mziulu 12y ago
I haven't used uMatrix, since I use Firefox, but I can speak for RequestPolicy, which is kind of the same thing basically AFAICS. It's very very very rare that I end up whitelisting everything that's requested on a site. The more you use the extension, the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended, and this way you end up building your own whitelist: allowing requests from a domain is a one-time only thing most of the times (additionally, there's an extension you can install that syncs your whitelist to your Firefox Sync account).
- the8472 12y ago
  > the more you learn to recognize what domains you need to allow in order to have the site working as intended Sites using cloudflare are a major issue here, specifically their cryptic subdomains. If someone were to hide an ad network behind those they would be hard to tell apart from the rest, at least for humans.
  - mziulu 12y ago
    Yes this is true. If a site is not working and the only reasonable domain to allow is something from cloudflare, I resort to allowing it temporarily. Not many ways around that, I think.

oe 12y ago

On my slightly older MBP (2011) the plugin caused performance issues. Mainly hanging when opening a new tab and navigating somewhere. Other extensions have had same problems, so I might need to move into filtering ads at network level.