Subj : bogged down by trackers
To   : Jay Harris
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Feb 17 2021 09:31 pm

Hello Jay Harris!

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

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

 JH> Which blocker are you using?  I use "uBlock Origin"
 JH> (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


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


 JH> It really hit home how well that extension works when a
 JH> friend brought up speedtest.net and there were more
 JH> 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.





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