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Not sure if this is well known or not, but it seems like ad-block speeds up your clock.

I was having a lot of frustrations with losing on time. Basically, I could never get a move to complete in under 1 second unless I pre-moved. I have a good internet connection; thought I was losing my mind.

Turns out that my ad-blocker appears to be slowing everything down. What I think is happening is every time I received a moved from my opponent, the ad-block would spend some amount of time examining the packet, and I would essentially be losing 10-20 seconds per game from my clock. I play 3min chess with no increment, so this is huge. It also made it appear my opponent was playing slower, so I would play slower to match.

Disabled the ad-blocker and now I don't seem to lose on time anymore. My opponents felt like they were moving super-fast the first few games back before I adjusted. Maybe I'm imagining things, but there appears to be an effect.

Not sure if this is well known or not, but it seems like ad-block speeds up your clock. I was having a lot of frustrations with losing on time. Basically, I could never get a move to complete in under 1 second unless I pre-moved. I have a good internet connection; thought I was losing my mind. Turns out that my ad-blocker appears to be slowing everything down. What I think is happening is every time I received a moved from my opponent, the ad-block would spend some amount of time examining the packet, and I would essentially be losing 10-20 seconds per game from my clock. I play 3min chess with no increment, so this is huge. It also made it appear my opponent was playing slower, so I would play slower to match. Disabled the ad-blocker and now I don't seem to lose on time anymore. My opponents felt like they were moving super-fast the first few games back before I adjusted. Maybe I'm imagining things, but there appears to be an effect.

glbert

#2

@IdealForms said in #1:

Disabled the ad-blocker and now I don't seem to lose on time anymore.

hope you only disabled it for lichess. on lichess an adblocker is pretty much useless anyway, but almost all the rest of the web is hell without.

@IdealForms said in #1: > Disabled the ad-blocker and now I don't seem to lose on time anymore. hope you only disabled it for lichess. on lichess an adblocker is pretty much useless anyway, but almost all the rest of the web is hell without.

HommeSaoul

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#3

Interesting, which adblocker and which browser were you using?

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PkGam

#5

An extension/add-on slowing things down isn't unheard of as every one that gets installed uses some level of system resources. But it might actually be an accumulation of everything at once and closing the adblocker freed up enough to smooth things out. Unless of course the ablocker is the only thing you have installed to the browser. But like gilbert said, they are essential for the modern web as the ad bombardment makes it unusable. So only set it to not run on Lichess since this place is ad-free anyway or just get a more lightweight blocker (My pick is Ublock Origin/Lite). For what you can do to narrow things down in general though:

In Firefox you can type "about:performance" to open the process manager.
In Chrome you can do the same with holding shift + escape.
They are basically browser versions of the Task Manager to see what things are using the most system resources. Speaking of, you can also use the OS's task manager to do the same.

Some things are running in the background when they don't need to be or maybe using so much system resources that you'd be better off without them in favor of getting a more lightweight equivalent. (Anything you don't know you can look up online to see what the filename is referring to.) My general rule of thumb when it comes to setting up a system is anything not in use is best nuked. That not only eliminates a lot of things running in the background such as auto updates and preloading which can chug a system, but it'll also greatly narrow things down when you need to troubleshoot because there's less stuff to check over. Of course you can also go into all the things you don't use and toggle stuff in their settings so they aren't running in the background, but that's a lot of toggling for unused stuff and keeping them uses hard drive space.

An extension/add-on slowing things down isn't unheard of as every one that gets installed uses some level of system resources. But it might actually be an accumulation of everything at once and closing the adblocker freed up enough to smooth things out. Unless of course the ablocker is the only thing you have installed to the browser. But like gilbert said, they are essential for the modern web as the ad bombardment makes it unusable. So only set it to not run on Lichess since this place is ad-free anyway or just get a more lightweight blocker (My pick is Ublock Origin/Lite). For what you can do to narrow things down in general though: In Firefox you can type "about:performance" to open the process manager. In Chrome you can do the same with holding shift + escape. They are basically browser versions of the Task Manager to see what things are using the most system resources. Speaking of, you can also use the OS's task manager to do the same. Some things are running in the background when they don't need to be or maybe using so much system resources that you'd be better off without them in favor of getting a more lightweight equivalent. (Anything you don't know you can look up online to see what the filename is referring to.) My general rule of thumb when it comes to setting up a system is anything not in use is best nuked. That not only eliminates a lot of things running in the background such as auto updates and preloading which can chug a system, but it'll also greatly narrow things down when you need to troubleshoot because there's less stuff to check over. Of course you can also go into all the things you don't use and toggle stuff in their settings so they aren't running in the background, but that's a lot of toggling for unused stuff and keeping them uses hard drive space.

AintGonnaBeNoRematch

#6

big if true