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Renegade:
I can only suppose that he maybe doesn't have the ad-blocking features in his browser that I (and lots of others) have.
-IainB (December 06, 2011, 01:44 PM)
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To be honest, I've given up on extensions. Most of the ones that I've used have simply been horrible. IF they even work, they grind the browser to a halt very quickly.

I used to use a few, but simply got sick of the sluggishness. I have far fewer problems with just the simple, stock browser. Some things I'll install, but ONLY if they're 1,000% necessary and I can't live without them, e.g. Firebug.

I still think that this is in part due to extensions using JavaScript. I simply loathe the language. It's just not a good language for the web anymore. It's slow and destroys the user experience far too easily with umpteen trillion "web developers" <insert profanity here /> writing quadrillions of lines of code for every web page.

Pages simply have far too much scripting in them now. And JavaScript isn't the right thing to deal with that. It's procedural. It's not an OO language. It fakes OO, but it's not. HTML is declarative. Like how does a procedural language fit with a declarative one? XML/XSL/XSLT works very nicely together because you have a functional language working with a declarative one. They work well together. They're elegant.

I recently TRIED to read a CNET news article... Nearly impossible. The page was so heavy with crap in it that I could barely scroll. No problems elsewhere. (I just installed another 8 GB of RAM in this box as well.) Bad page.

I just don't have the patience to deal with <insert more profanity here /> insanity on the web.

I just want the pages to render quickly so that I can quickly get through what I want/need on them, then GTFO.

Now, I have used some extensions that actually were pretty decent, but when push came to shove, they still slowed things down too much.

If we're going to have a hundred kajillon burble-farts of scripts running on every page, something a bit more sane than JavaScript would make the web a much better experience.

I think Microsoft really had it right with their basic architecture for running code in a web page. BHOs simply perform beautifully. Compiled plugins just work. I'm not saying "lets' run lots of ActiveX" or anything like that. I just mean that they had things working better.

If browsers are going to do heavy lifting, they need heavy lifting tools. JavaScript isn't for heavy lifting.

Then again, I could just be far less patient than most people...

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IainB:
Failing that, find an auto-clicker, then hit their unique google link, so they end up paying a fortune for no real results...
-Stephen66515 (December 06, 2011, 02:14 PM)
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That looks like rather a nifty idea. I wonder if the Google people haven't already thought of that one?

@Renegade: Interesting rant.
I agree, any FF add-ons seem to slow the thing down. Same for Chromium add-ons - they seem to be even worse (slower).
To compensate, I hardly browse the web much nowadays - at least, not in any random browsing manner.
I feed all the sites I am likely to be interested in into my feed aggregator (Google reader), filter out duplicate items, and search/scan the rest for items of interest. When I decide to go to read agiven web page, all the ad-blocking is enabled.
As for CNET, yep it is horrible. But it doesn't look too bad after all the ad garbage has been filtered out, and it looks really quite nice (made just how you like it) when viewed with the FF add-on Reader 2.0 and your customised colours/fonts. Ah! Bliss for the eyes.

What annoys me about this though is that the admen have hijacked the Internet and are pumping all this garbage noise down to our modems/routers, and we are paying with our money for the bandwidth utilisation and with our time for the browser lag to filter it all out again.
I still reckon the JunkBuster approach was the most effective, efficient and least wasteful of resources. As far as I understood it, that just stopped the garbage at the source webserver you client was communicating with. I think the advertisers must have somehow "fixed" the authors of that software though. It was too effective at what it did.

mahesh2k:
Fodder, as per SEOMoz guys yes google is using that data to make search results more personalized and use the blocked sites data for filtering them out of search engines.

As for that add-on on chrome, recent policy changes expect us to share that data with google servers or else they're going to disable that plugin. So basically that add-on and logged in blocking pretty much is under googles control.

Deozaan:
When did Google start previewing the search results on the side of the page? :huh:

AFT! Blocking Google Nonsense is HERE!

mahesh2k:
I think preview was released during early Feb or march this year.

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