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The most interesting takeaway - the overall resource savings good adblockers provide - is buried under the IMO less interesting graphs showing bad extensions:

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extension-performance-...

Without ad-blockers per-page CPU time is 17.5 seconds.

This is completely insane. Of course it's a small fraction of that with good ad blockers.

Back when Firefox Mobile was near-unusably slow, ad blocking made it competitive. Overall, the experience (speed and UX annoyances) were roughly the same in both (the removal of ads making up for the clunky Firefox UI).

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