Comment on Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies?
zik@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Run ublock origin and turn off all the ads and trackers. Then you can see for yourself how much faster it is.
The answer is… not much. Because most of those things load in after the page is up anyway.
IverCoder@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I have been using uBlock for an extremely long time now and sites seem to become faster over time even though I have never upgraded my laptop all these years.
When I tried to disable uBlock for a day, my laptop forcefully shut down after 30 minutes.
Software optimization over time improves performance but is outweighted by the tracking crap they put in there.