• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Web browsing is the real murder here… and i dont want to know how much memory is solely spent on ads

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        10 hours ago

        I thought ad blockers just blocked ads from showing, not that they stopped them from being downloaded…

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      24 hours ago

      The week after GDPR went into effect was amazing. Almost nobody was ready, so they just turned off all their ads and tracking for European IPs while they figured it out. Pages loaded pretty much instantly.