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by macintux 2564 days ago
Makes the marketing claim that much more amusing.

> …to speed up page loads, eliminate clutter…

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