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   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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