论文标题
揭开内容阻滞剂的神秘面纱：对实际绩效增长的大规模研究
Demystifying content-blockers: A large scale study of actual performance gains
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论文摘要
随着在线广告和跟踪生态系统的发展，内容过滤已成为提高互联网上浏览安全性，隐私和浏览体验的参考工具。人们通常也认为，使用内容阻滞剂停止未经请求的内容会减少加载网站所需的时间。在这项工作中，我们通过100K最受欢迎的网站进行了大规模研究，以对使用内容阻滞剂的实际性能改进进行。我们将研究重点放在两个最相关的指标上，以供用户体验；带宽和延迟。我们的结果表明，使用此类工具在带宽使用方面会产生较小的改进，但与普遍的看法相反，它在加载时间方面具有可忽略的影响。我们还发现，对于小规模和快速加载的网站，使用内容阻滞剂甚至可以增加浏览延迟。
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 in the two most relevant metrics for user experience; bandwidth and latency. Our results show that using such tools results in small improvements in terms of bandwidth usage 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 fast loading websites, the use of content-blockers can even result in increased browsing latency.
