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Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection Reduces Load Time For News Sites By 44%

Posted by Soulskill on from the definition-of-a-win-win dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Former Mozilla software engineer Monica Chew and Computer Science researcher Georgios Kontaxis recently released a paper (PDF) that examines Firefox's optional Tracking Protection feature. The duo found that with Tracking Protection enabled, the Alexa top 200 news sites saw a 67.5 percent reduction in the number of HTTP cookies set. Furthermore, performance benefits included a 44 percent median reduction in page load time and 39 percent reduction in data usage.

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  1. Nice timing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...for their own previously-announced in-house tracking feature to take the lead in dragging down website load times.

    1. Re:Nice timing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      More importantly, can any of the liberals and/or fanny bandits at Mozilla dig up any dirt on these people so we can get them fired like was done to Brendan Eich? The one thing I can't stand is free speech.

      -Though Police member