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Care to comment about the debugbear benchmarks? Why is the supposed undue overhead as per SpeeDOMeter not showing up in there? I encourage whoever to actually speculate less and measure page load times from the top 500 Alexa and make the case that uBO is an issue CPU- and memory-wise. I confidently predict that you will find that there is no correlation to the SpeeDOMeter benchmark. There are other 3rd-party benchmarks out there which also found that uBO does indeed save CPU and memory resources.[1][2][3] * * * [1] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1246085758580142081 [2] https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384 [3] https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-…

From my anecdotal experience, ublock origin is also faster. This is apparently backed up by at least some testing: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-…

You can just set your dns to a provider that blocks porn. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-block-pornographic-websites-without… Secondly if this is a addiction then you should seek a help group. There is a AAA style meeting for everything. Finally best of luck.

> "Why can't Microsoft implement an optional menu bar? It's ridiculous." Not available from Microsoft, but... https://www.raymond.cc/blog/add-classic-menu-to-microsoft-office-2007-…

uBlock is a traditional ad blocker. you can see how traditional ad blockers compare: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-…

Yeah, I'd really like to see this benchmarked against µBlock Origin. I'm fine with switching if it truly is faster and works comparably, but until I see proof of that, I see no reason to switch over. The authors of this product should run their adblocker against all of them here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-…

here its a performance review of some of them uBlock origin seems the best performance wise, https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-…

There is a benchmark of various web blockers and the testing methodology: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-… It's not just about rendering time. There is implications for battery life which on phones is obviously pretty important.

After I made my previous post you added a source about _ABP_ being a memory hog. Show me a source that uBlock Origin is a memory hog compared to vanilla and ABP. This article [1] shows how ABP is, indeed, a resource hog, compared to uBlock Origin. It also shows that pages load quicker with uBlock Origin than vanilla. Its an article from 2 years ago though. This article [2] talks about how in december 2018 uBlock Origin uses WASM for better performance. It includes a link to benchmark the software. This article [3] from begin 2019 compares the performance of different adblockers (the article is by the authors of Ghostery though therefore I link to the Reddit discussion). [1] https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-… [2] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/03/ublock-origin-performance-improvemen… [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ar7a3m/adblockers_perfo…

That's not supported by any data posted there. You'd have to have almost all of your memory filled will pointers to achieve 2x increase which just doesn't happen in reality. Looking at a large application like Firefox https://www.raymond.cc/blog/mozilla-firefox-64bit-build-performance-co… you get ~30% increase.

Easily changed by tweaking firmware, NAND, whatever. Also, this technology is far from new. When usb thumb drives first became mass-produced a lot of thieves would buy small ones and change the flash memory to read whatever size, and sell them to unsuspecting customers. Man that was forever ago, like back when most were only a few MB in size. In fact here[1] is an article from two years ago discussing it being done on SSDs as well, and lists several programs to try and find if you've been deceived. [1] https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-fl…

Another datapoint: an SD card purchased this week by a friend was fake. Seller was amazon, not a third party. If you want to test an SD card, this site details how: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-detect-fake-or-counterfeit-usb-fl…

For old technologies falling in disuse, like fax, there's an opportunity in the trailing edge to providing it as a service thru the internet. You can have a fax number, and any fax sent to that number will be forwarded to you as an attachment in an email. Similarly, there are services providing you with a phone number to receive SMS messages and forward them by email: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/top-10-sites-receive-sms-online-without-ph…

Try activating the IMAP/POP settings on gmail, then suck in your gmail emails into a desktop client that supports bouncing to spam accounts, c.f. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/23/bounce-email-spam-messa…

I couldn't install XP on a new laptop that easily (problems with SATA disks when they are set in RAID mode): http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/21/install-xp-setup-did-no…

> "It only works from Mac to Mac though. You cannot do remote desktop from Windows to Mac. That's typical Apple bullshit" What are you talking about? Here are five ways: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/remote-access-apple-mac-os-x-via-windows/ TL;DR: Turn on the built-in open standard VNC server on the Mac, use a VNC client on Windows: Mac OS X actually comes with a built-in remote management feature that allows other computers on the local network to access the Apple computer using the Apple Remote Desktop which we mentioned earlier. However, there is a setting where you can allow third party VNC viewers to connect and control the Apple computer. First click on the System Preferences icon at the Dock and click on Sharing. Click on the checkbox for the Remote Management to turn on the service. Click on Computer Settings button. Tick on the “VNC viewers may control screen with password” and type in a password. Click OK to save the changes...

Fixing things like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Testing features like: - night mode - calendar 'today' visualisation on different days of month etc. Cheating like: https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/how-to/hacking-time-speed-up-game-… https://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-extend-the-trial-period-of-a-softwa… In that last link, #1 is actually (coincidentally, that wasn't in my search) the software submitted here.