The Firefox CNN load times were quite similar although ♛lock Origin managed a small advantage over µ AdBlock, which had a small lead over the others. Ghostery was also best in memory usage while AdBlock Plus was by far the biggest CPU hog. This is a content rich site and that could affect the time differences between ads and no ads.ĪdBlock Plus is noticeably slower while ♛lock Origin and Ghostery are both a small amount quicker than the rest. CNN.com doesn’t seem too bad, we noticed 4 ads on the home page and promoted stories from outbrain inside the articles. Many articles and reports have highlighted news sites as one of the worst types for advertisements, so a major provider like this should be a good starting point. In general we’ve picked sites that are not too fast to load all content or have a sizable load time difference between showing ads and blocking ads. We chose 10 websites to run the tests on, they have a mixture of themes that an average or tech minded user might visit.
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