Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial
sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have
really slowed down?
I use an adblocker. It "counts" the hits that it encounters. The
3 sites that I mention above consistently reach 20+. The sites
are very sluggish to respond until the blocker is finished.
Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in that
regard.
Has anyone else noticed that the lookups on most commercial
sites such as Indigo, Amazon, CanadianTire, BestBuy, etc.. have
really slowed down?
Shopping sites are truly just getting worse and worse in
that 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.
Remember, almost every site you go to makes multiple
queries through some S3 style implementation. The speed of
the queries is heavily dependant upon DNS. If your DNS is
slow, or you have too many hops, this will slow everything
down.
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