Request Hit Counter on Filter Settings screen

[ghost]

It will help users know how prevalent the content is Perhaps 2 counts for each: number of unique domains number of hits

[cooperq]

Ooh, I like this a lot! Now we just have to think about how that should look in the UI.

[ghost]

on the Filter Settings screen you'd have 2 additional columns "Unique Sites" & "Total Hits"... something like that. I also think adding that total count up top to the main pop-up window as well.

If there were timestamps logged somewhere you could timeline somewhere. There could be some simple cool analytics somewhere with minimal extra collection as long as it isn't something that can be construed as a privacy concern in itself. Like a timestamp the first time a 3rd party content is logged, then graph a daily count for the past month & monthly count for the past 12 months or something.

I could almost see an estimated bandwidth saved, say, if it takes 3 counts before something is blocked the content had to have been downloaded 3 times anyways. Take an average of the 3 sizes and store it, then put that number in a data point and anytime that content is hit and blocked that avg size is guessed as a savings.

Say, fonts.google.com content was downloaded at 30KB, 60KB and 90KB before the block was made. Any additional hit would be a 60KB estimated savings. I tried that sessbench thing gorhill made for Chrome and Privacy Badger definitely improves over time. After I'm done browsing for a while (me at least) Privacy Badger gets pretty darn aggressive. Just click on a bunch of posts on https://www.reddit.com/r/news/ and you've got 300+ trackers fairly quickly.

[jawz101]

Something like this but not drawn in Paint. The bandwidth savings thing sounds pretty advanced. You'd have to read temp files, save size calculations... I don't know if it's worth it but it sounds cool.