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posted by chromas on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the free-content-is-paid-for-by-wasting-your-life-on-loading-times dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

Ads are responsible for making webpages slow to a crawl, suggests analysis of the most popular one million websites.

The research by developer Patrick Hulce looked at which chunks of code take longest to load.

About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do, he found.

Not news for most Soylentils, but in case anyone needs to cite the performance hit (to convince PHBs)...

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:12PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:12PM (#802065) Journal

    Use a fork, such as Palemoon or Basilisk.

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