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Am Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:38:42 -0400 |
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schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org>: |
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> I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I |
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> want to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still |
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> functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's |
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> generally snappy. But there are a few web pages that throw the |
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> kitchen sink of 3rd-pary adservers+trackers. 178 unique servers for |
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> one web page will peg the load from the web browser to 150% of 1 cpu |
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> core. On a 2-core machine, that is bad. The browser is unresponsive |
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> for a few seconds at a time. |
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> I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a |
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> gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass |
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> hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is |
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> there a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, |
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> that'll block specified domains? |
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I'm using the combination of these browser add-ons available for |
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Firefox and Chromium: |
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uBlock Origin |
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uMatrix |
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EFF Privacy Badger |
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uBlock Origin is an ad blocker. |
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uMatrix is similar to NoScript but a lot more flexible and easier to |
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use, and comes with some hosts files (not copied to /etc/hosts). |
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And Privacy Badger blocks domains, JavaScripts, cookies etc. that are |
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used to create a profile of yours. |
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Those three are doing quite a good job from what I can tell. And surfing |
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on a Raspberry Pi 3 is also a lot better with these. |
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That said, it's not only ad servers which cause a massive CPU load, it's |
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also badly designed and overloaded websites which contain a lot of |
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JavaScript and load content from several other servers, particularly |
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from JavaScript hosts and CDNs. |
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Heiko |
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