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Would disabling URL rules improve performance? #3182

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This is often heard flawed idea. Assume you block ALL ad-, tracking-, annoyances- , and malicious servers on your router1. Every time your browser or OS first has to query DNS record of them unless already cached and only then the requests will be sink-holed. No query ever happens if blocked on browser. People should ditch the naive idea as if uBO matches each and every requests against every rules. Do you see delay in Google search as the number of websites is growing? uBO's matching is the same, in a nutshell, uBO discards rules not having chance to match a request in early stages and thus most of rules are as if non-existent. Coming Chromium MV3 visualizes (sort of) this - all the doma…

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