Just wanted to spread the word that I've OpenSource'd my side project Analytics & Ad Blocker. It's my first one, so looking for any feedback I can help make it easier to develop on! Hope you enjoy.
You're not getting those metrics from other products like Ghostery, uBlock.
Also, browsers built for privacy are not showing up as metrics either.
I think generally analytics are incredibly helpful, but they've been abused. There should not be a way that individual users show be able to be identified by their browser analytics.
While working on this project that amount of data that I've seen collected on individuals is terrifying.
Perhaps you could use some other metric for success? Like adding the ability to "like" an article, or share? I know some individuals add the ability to click a button to "Continue Article" or something to track engagement.
It is comparable- uBlock is a great tool. I wanted to create a more intuitive UI and user experience than what uBlock currently offers. There's also free reporting on my tool that allows you to see the differences in blocked content between each site.
Brave is good, but doesn't have market share. I wanted to build a product for browsers with the largest market share to help preserve privacy at scale.
There's 2 applications on the same website. Globemallow is for a sustainable web development practice feedback.
Analytics and Ad Blocker is the ad blocking tool.
>I think most of the extra bandwidth and load times come simply for the large assets use
You are correct. Size does come from images, but page load times and CPU usage generally comes from the scripts and additional requests from analytics and advertisement scripts. When a page is just spinning waiting to load the content it significantly increases the energy usage of a website.
Analytics & Ad Blocker by Globemallow.io https://globemallow.io/ was the first Manifest v3 Ad Block extension.
I first published on 06/22/2022.
Last night actually I asked if AdGuard would want to license the software, and sent them a link to my extension. They are aware they weren't the first, and made this post after knowing it.
A few years ago I learned about how large of a CO2 pollutant the Internet is, and I became extremely fascinated with that concept because I had never thought about it before. In fact, a lot of people haven't it seems.
I researched sustainable methodologies for internet development, and created the Chrome Extensions listed under Globemallow.io. To help people become more aware.
It shows users a rough estimation of their internet browsing energy usage, and CO2 emissions emitted.
Globemallow Dev view shows sustainable development best practices, and how a page has implemented them.
Check it out, and give any feedback. Thanks in advance!
Just wanted to spread the word that I've OpenSource'd my side project Analytics & Ad Blocker. It's my first one, so looking for any feedback I can help make it easier to develop on! Hope you enjoy.
Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/analytics-ad-block...
Edge- https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/analytics-...
Safari - https://apps.apple.com/app/analytics-ad-blocker/id1641772773