Adblock will cache popular Javascript libraries, meaning adblocked pages will be faster and less janky
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3H471)
Years ago, big tech companies stumbled on a brilliant scheme for collecting data on web-users: they started providing incredibly useful free Javascript libraries to web publishers: whenever a web publisher embedded one of these libraries, it would serve as a tracking beacon for everyone who visited that publisher's site, all without having to get into the messy business of even serving ads. (more")