____/ waterskidoo on Saturday 18 August 2007 16:17 : \____
> On 2007-08-18, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [via /.]
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>> http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/
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>> How Much Are Ad Servers Slowing the Web?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| It seems to me that on popular Web sites the bottleneck is overwhelmingly
>>| on the ad servers now and not on the servers of the site itself.
>> `----
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>> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1617259&from=rss
>
> I've been noticing this myself on various sites.
> I thought it was due to having pop ups blocked?
> It's difficult to quantify because it doesn't always
> happen. Next time I'm in Windows I'll try a site
> that seems slow with IE and see what happens.
> For the record I rarely use IE because I don't
> like the new versions.
I have been running NoScript for a long time and it rarely blocks access to
actual content (a couple of click sort that out anyway).
* Pageloads are quicker
* No spying by third-part stat tools
* Browser far less prone to crashes
* More secure
* ...
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