{"id":2073,"date":"2014-12-28T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2014-12-28T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T11:06:43","slug":"aside-adblock-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/aside\/aside-adblock-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"[Aside] AdBlock Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/182428-ironic-iframes-adblock-plus-is-probably-the-reason-firefox-and-chrome-are-such-memory-hogs\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a> yesterday. Turns out AdBlock Plus (ABP) increases memory usage due to the way it works. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2014\/05\/14\/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> by a Mozilla developer for more info. The latter post also includes responses from the ABP\u00a0developer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I disabled ABP\u00a0on my browsers. Not\u00a0because of these reports, but because I had been thinking of disabling it for a while but never got around to it. (I know it&#8217;s just a right click and disable away, but I never got around to it! :) Mainly coz I use the excellent Ghostery and Privacy Badger extensions, and these block most of the trackers and widgets I am interested in blocking, so I have never used ABP much. I had installed it a long time ago and it gets installed automatically on all my new Chrome\/ Firefox\u00a0installs\u00a0thanks to sync, but I never configure or bother with it (except to whitelist a site if I feel ABP could be causing issues with it). Yesterday&#8217;s report seemed to be a good\u00a0excuse to finally remove it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8802424\" target=\"_blank\">Hacker News post<\/a> is also worth a read. There are some alternatives like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/%C2%B5block\/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">\u00b5Block<\/a> (seems to be Chrome only) (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gorhill\/uBlock\" target=\"_blank\">github link<\/a>).\u00a0It is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gorhill\/httpswitchboard\" target=\"_blank\">HTTP Switchboard<\/a>\u00a0and is by the same developer. I have used HTTP Switchboard briefly in the past. Came across it as I was looking for a NoScript equivalent for Chrome and this was\u00a0recommended. I didn&#8217;t use it much though as there was too much configuring and white-listing to do. (For that matter I stopped using NoScript too. It&#8217;s still installed but disabled except for its <a href=\"https:\/\/noscript.net\/faq#faqsec4\" target=\"_blank\">XSS features<\/a>). Like I said, my favorites now are Ghostery and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/privacybadger\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Badger<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the latter is especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/privacybadger#how_does_it_work\" target=\"_blank\">smart<\/a> in that automatically starts blocking websites based on your browsing patterns (in fact Privacy Badger is based on ABP).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this report yesterday. Turns out AdBlock Plus (ABP) increases memory usage due to the way it works. Check out this post by a Mozilla developer for more info. The latter post also includes responses from the ABP\u00a0developer.\u00a0 I disabled ABP\u00a0on my browsers. Not\u00a0because of these reports, but because I had been thinking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/aside\/aside-adblock-plus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Aside] AdBlock Plus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[258],"tags":[427,293,426,425,428],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}