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chente | 6 years ago

Noticed the same thing and found that it was caused by Ghostery.

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bt3|6 years ago

Yep this was it.

Thanks to all for your concerns of my potentially malware-infected PC, alas, it was just an ad-blocker.

macintux|6 years ago

Makes the marketing claim that much more amusing.

> …to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter…

userbinator|6 years ago

To be fair, hiding elements may mean not fetching any resources needed for their content, which can be faster despite having to parse a bunch of additional CSS first to determine which ones to hide --- especially if the former involves the execution of JavaScript.

aasasd|6 years ago

Loading one snippet from an extension (i.e. the cache) is vastly faster than loading dozens of scripts and styles over the network.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu|6 years ago

In my case it was Opera's built-in ad blocker.

Tarrosion|6 years ago

What does this mean about Opera's ad blocker? (I also see a ton of junk up top when Opera's block ads is enabled, but I don't know what to make of this.)

z3t4|6 years ago

Vanilla Chrome will also inject code if you have a * style rule.