SpeedReader improves user privacy as well, by removing all commonly recognized trackers. On applicable pages, SpeedReader speeds up page loading by 27×, and reduces network use by 84×, compared to regular browsing. SpeedReader automatically detects which pages are suitable, significantly improving the end-user experience – especially on slower mobile connections. For suitable pages, SpeedReader removes all non-essential content before page load, saving time, bandwidth and removing ads and trackers in that SpeedReader goes beyond what Brave does by default in terms of blocking trackers and ads. It delivers huge improvements to not only the aesthetics of the browsing experience, but to browsing performance and privacy as well. SpeedReader is a new approach to reader modes. To address these issues, Brave is developing SpeedReader. Reader modes aim to make the reading experience more pleasant, but do not try to improve page load times or protect users’ privacy, as the entire page is loaded first, before removing the bloat. As such, major browsers include a reader mode, which reduces the visual complexity of web sites by eliminating distracting ads, videos, sponsored content links, and other web elements not essential to the page. Web browsers sometimes need to intervene for users to continue enjoying the web. Such growth in capability has however resulted in page “bloat,” making pages expensive to load, and bringing along ubiquitous advertising and tracking. The modern web’s progress has led far beyond Hypertext Markup for document discovery, with media-rich experiences and dynamic applications. SpeedReader is useful on 22% of web pages in general, and has even higher applicability for user-shared content (31% on Twitter and 42% on Reddit).Ī New Approach to Reader Modes: Performance and Privacy Gains By removing all non-essential content before a page loads, SpeedReader goes beyond reader mode’s aesthetic improvements and delivers:ġ) radical performance gains (speedups ranging from 20× to 27×, bandwidth savings on the order of 84×, and memory reduction of 2.4×) Ģ) significant privacy benefits, which include a complete elimination of ad and tracking related requests. Summary: SpeedReader is Brave’s new approach to reader mode, the browser tool that makes web pages more pleasant and less complex to read. Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist), as well as by Mohammad Ghasemisharif (Ph.D student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and intern at Brave). This post is an abbreviated version of this report, based on research conducted at Brave by Andrius Aucinas (Performance Researcher), Peter Snyder (Privacy Researcher), and Dr.
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