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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Arquitectura de Computadors
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CBA - Sistemes de Comunicacions i Arquitectures de Banda Ampla
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Castell Uroz, Ismael
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Solé Pareta, Josep
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Barlet Ros, Pere
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Castell, I.; Solé-Pareta, J.; Barlet, P. Demystifying content-blockers: A large-scale study of actual performance gains. A: International Conference on Network and Service Management. "CNSM 2020, 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management: November 2-6, 2020, virtual conference". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020, p. 1-7. ISBN 978-3-903176-31-7. DOI 10.23919/CNSM50824.2020.9269094.
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978-3-903176-31-7
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https://hdl.handle.net/2117/335314
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10.23919/CNSM50824.2020.9269094
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With the evolution of the online advertisement and tracking ecosystem, content-filtering has become the reference tool for improving the security, privacy and browsing experience when surfing the Internet. It is also commonly believed that using content-blockers to stop unsolicited content decreases the time needed for loading websites. In this work, we perform a large-scale study with the 100K most popular websites on the actual performance improvements of using content-blockers. We focus our study on two relevant metrics for measuring the browsing performance; page size and loading time. Our results show that using such tools results in small improvements in terms of page size but, contrary to popular belief, it has a negligible impact in terms of loading time. We also find that, in the case of small and lightweight websites, the use of content-blockers can even result in increased loading times.
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This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO under contract TEC2017-90034-C2-1-R (ALLIANCE).
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Peer Reviewed
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Postprint (author's final draft)
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application/pdf
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9269094
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/TEC2017-90034-C2-1-R/ES/DISEÑANDO UNA INFRAESTRUCTURA DE RED 5G DEFINIDA MEDIANTE CONOCIMIENTO HACIA LA PROXIMA SOCIEDAD DIGITAL/
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Seguretat informàtica
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Internet -- Security measures
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Content-filtering
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Internet -- Mesures de seguretat
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Demystifying content-blockers: A large-scale study of actual performance gains
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Conference report
