On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:38:42 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want > to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still > functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's generally > snappy. But there are a few web pages that throw the kitchen sink of > 3rd-pary adservers+trackers. 178 unique servers for one web page will > peg the load from the web browser to 150% of 1 cpu core. On a 2-core > machine, that is bad. The browser is unresponsive for a few seconds at > a time. > > I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a > gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass > hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is there > a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, that'll > block specified domains?
Use uBlock origin. Both firefox and chromium work perfectly fine for me on a Core2Duo host. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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