I guess I should try uBlock Origin 7/24/15

I’m ready to try uBlock Origin, after reading Les Orchard’s post on how much tracking and advertising junk is in a simple Verge article:

Devtools performed a second reload of the [The Verge] page to get an overall performance analysis. This time it downloaded 12MB - a little over 7MB in that is JavaScript!

Just to put this in some rough perspective: Assuming I had a 1GB / month data plan, I could visit sites like The Verge about 3 times per day before I hit my cap. If I’m lucky, some or most of this will get cached between requests so it won’t be quite that bad. In fact, another report tells me that a primed cache yields 8MB transferred - so maybe 4 visits per day.

uBlock Origin is an ad and tracking script blocker for Chrome and Firefox ¹ that is supposedly much quicker and less memory intensive than the more popular Adblock Plus.

For now I’m going to try uBlock Origin in Firefox. Before I adopt a blocker in Safari – my main browser ² – I’m waiting for the Content Blocking framework coming in El Capitan.