It’s crazy how misaligned the incentives are for chrome development.
If performance was the criteria by which they made decisions then they would probably bake ad-blocking directly into chrome, since ads/tracking is one of the leading reasons for poor performance.
Instead we are left with PR pieces and false features. It feels like they are creating a lot of noise to drown out the signal.
> ... ads/tracking is one of the leading reasons for poor performance.
That's especially obvious when using nested VPN chains and Tor. Because latency can exceed 500 msec. Sites like HN typically load in a second or two. But sites with ads and tracking take 10 seconds or more.
If performance was the criteria by which they made decisions then they would probably bake ad-blocking directly into chrome, since ads/tracking is one of the leading reasons for poor performance.
Instead we are left with PR pieces and false features. It feels like they are creating a lot of noise to drown out the signal.