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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:06:00
    Hello All..

    Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial
    sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have
    really slowed down?

    I use an adblocker. It "counts" the hits that it encounters. The
    3 sites that I mention above consistently reach 20+. The sites
    are very sluggish to respond until the blocker is finished.

    Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in that
    regard.

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to August Abolins on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 15:16:05
    On 17 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...

    Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial
    sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have
    really slowed down?

    I use an adblocker. It "counts" the hits that it encounters. The
    3 sites that I mention above consistently reach 20+. The sites
    are very sluggish to respond until the blocker is finished.

    Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in that
    regard.

    Which blocker are you using? I use "uBlock Origin" (ublockorigin.com) and find it quite speedy. It was described on the Security Now podcast as more of an "HTML Firewall" than a blocker as it stops things from being processed or even fetched saving you battery power & bandwidth.

    It really hit home how well that extension works when a friend brought up speedtest.net and there were more advertisements than content on the screen.


    With uBlock enabled:
    https://ibb.co/swBmzyv

    Without uBlock enabled:
    https://ibb.co/8DrjJz8


    Jay

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  • From Brian Klauss@1:104/116 to August Abolins on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 13:26:33
    Re: bogged down by trackers
    By: August Abolins to All on Wed Feb 17 2021 10:06 am

    Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial
    sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have
    really slowed down?

    Remember, almost every site you go to makes multiple queries through some S3 style implementation. The speed of the queries is heavily dependant upon DNS. If your DNS is slow, or you have too many hops, this will slow everything down.

    Brian Klauss <-> Dream Master
    Caught in a Dream | caughtinadream.com a Synchronet BBS
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Jay Harris on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 21:31:00
    Hello Jay Harris!

    ** On Wednesday 17.02.21 - 15:16, Jay Harris wrote to August Abolins:

    Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in
    that regard.

    Which blocker are you using? I use "uBlock Origin"
    (ublockorigin.com)..

    I *think* I tried that one at one time but there was some reason
    I had to find something else.

    I use AdBlockerUltimate. My browser is Firefox on a laptop with
    XP.

    [1] a result with the AdBlockerUltimate working:
    URL: https://susepaste.org/8425927

    Note that 8 ads are blocked (upper right corner), and the DNS is
    spoofed.

    [2] a result with the AdBlockerUltimate turned off:
    URL: https://susepaste.org/42410585

    [3] the AdBlockerUltimate, itself:
    URL: https://susepaste.org/99112893


    and find it quite speedy. It was described on the Security
    Now podcast as more of an "HTML Firewall" than a blocker as
    it stops things from being processed or even fetched saving
    you battery power & bandwidth.

    I think I learned about uBlock from there too. But I think it
    stopped being supported as a plug-in for Firefox on XP.

    My FF is 52. And uBlocker needs 57 or up now.


    It really hit home how well that extension works when a
    friend brought up speedtest.net and there were more
    advertisements than content on the screen.


    Yes.. the goal would be to block the streaming data of the ads
    themselves. That is my concern when using mobile data configured
    as a hotspot for my XP latop that I primarily use at home.

    Facebook is another horrible place to visit on my modest mobile
    data connection. A typical visit to "facebook.com" would consume
    2MB of data before everything settles down. Meanwhile, if I use
    the mobile destination "m.facebook.com", the data stream is just
    200Kb. I just pop onto m.facebook.com long enough to see if
    there are any Messenger messages for me. If there are not, I
    leave. I am not interested in pictures of people's dinner
    plates and their myriad of forwarded memes.





    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.48
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Brian Klauss on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 21:43:00
    Hello Brian Klauss!

    ** On Wednesday 17.02.21 - 13:26, Brian Klauss wrote to August Abolins:

    Remember, almost every site you go to makes multiple
    queries through some S3 style implementation. The speed of
    the queries is heavily dependant upon DNS. If your DNS is
    slow, or you have too many hops, this will slow everything
    down.

    Noted. I find that sites utilizing Shopify are really slow too.
    But that's not because of ads, it's because of the extra fluff
    in the html code and the images that are not scaled for
    efficiency.

    Even some of the newspaper sites are constantly busy serving up
    new ads in the same spots while seeming sitting idle to read a
    page. My AdBlockerUltimate reports 52 ads before the main page
    even gets to finish at Rollingstone.com

    I don't think the DNS is an issue. It resolves very quick for
    most other inoccuous sites.

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    ../|ug

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