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0 pointsjosephg2y ago0 comments

Thankfully, the biggest ad company - Google - would hate it because it would dramatically reduce page performance. And webpage performance apparently has a big impact on ad clickthrough rates.

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rvnx2y ago

Not displaying the ad has even a bigger impact on the clickthrough rates

tentacleuno2y ago

Couldn't they just optimize Chromium to work (faster for APIs they require, etc.) around performance problems?

josephgOP2y ago

If chromium can write special case detection & optimizations for this javascript code, ad blockers can probably do the same.

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