The week after GDPR went into effect was amazing. Almost nobody was ready, so they just turned off all their ads and tracking for European IPs while they figured it out. Pages loaded pretty much instantly.
No, if it’s a good blocker it’s blocking all requests and connections to wherever the ads are being served from. There’s usually ALSO a level of cosmetic filtering for things that get past the blocklist or can’t be properly filtered because they’re coming from the same server as stuff you actually want to see, but with ublock origin set to strict and noscript set to allow only whitelisted sites, my page load times are way faster. Sometimes a shitty webpage will still ‘wait around’ for a second to try and get a connection from an ad site but it’s not loading anything into memory.
Web browsing is the real murder here… and i dont want to know how much memory is solely spent on ads
The week after GDPR went into effect was amazing. Almost nobody was ready, so they just turned off all their ads and tracking for European IPs while they figured it out. Pages loaded pretty much instantly.
None if you use a good adblocker, like you should be doing.
I thought ad blockers just blocked ads from showing, not that they stopped them from being downloaded…
No, if it’s a good blocker it’s blocking all requests and connections to wherever the ads are being served from. There’s usually ALSO a level of cosmetic filtering for things that get past the blocklist or can’t be properly filtered because they’re coming from the same server as stuff you actually want to see, but with ublock origin set to strict and noscript set to allow only whitelisted sites, my page load times are way faster. Sometimes a shitty webpage will still ‘wait around’ for a second to try and get a connection from an ad site but it’s not loading anything into memory.