TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
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   On 17 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...   
       
    AA> Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial     
    AA> sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have     
    AA> really slowed down?   
      
    AA> I use an adblocker. It "counts" the hits that it encounters. The     
    AA> 3 sites that I mention above consistently reach 20+.  The sites     
    AA> are very sluggish to respond until the blocker is finished.   
      
    AA> Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in that     
    AA> 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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