It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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    none

    Ah great

    it works [by] sending an HTTP request that registers as a “click” to the advertiser

    Uh, wait a minute. 🤔

    Sending a request also uses bandwidth, you know.

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      A basic GET request, even with a long querystring, will be negligible even on a 1998 dial-up connection.

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        Right, but thousands of them, possibly every day? Could perhaps affect your data consumption on your phone e.g. 🤷‍♂️

        Edit: I got it guys, thanks.

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          You aren’t terribly familiar with how much traffic we generate nowadays… are you? If we were still on 2G and isdn / dsl sure. You’d likely see a slight latency jump. On anything from this last decade+ ? Not a chance.

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            I’m not, am I. I hadn’t done any calculations regarding this. It was strictly hypothetical, as you can probably tell from the question mark and 🤷‍♂️. 👍