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The difference in page load times before and after implementing uBlock is staggering. Having to use a computer you don't own (or mobile) feels like traveling ba

• yellowapple 11y ago
  What's worse is that there are still plenty of places that haven't actually progressed beyond 1999 using 56k dial-up. A lot of these multi-megabyte JavaScript-laden sites are basically a big "fuck you" to those in developing countries and even rural/underdeveloped portions of developed countries that don't even have so much as DSL, let alone cable broadband or fiber. For them, it's either 56k dialup or paying absurd amounts of money (in a multi-year contract, no less) for a satellite connection (which tends to have significant performance problems due to the higher latency). Thankfully, this is starting to become less of a problem as cellular networks continue to expand, but there are still quite a few places where cell coverage is spotty at best (including here, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the mountains themselves cast all sorts of coverage shadows no matter how many towers get put up).
• josteink 11y ago
  Firefox mobile supports extensions like ublock just fine. Use a browser which doesn't suck :) And if you're using an Iphone: you made the choice that apple should make all the choices for you. You've made your own bed. Sorry about that.
  • tdkl 11y ago
    They already made that choice for iOS9.