gorhill should be given a Nobel Prize and a knighthood for contributions to humanity.
I can't imagine browsing the internet without uBlock installed. I honestly don't think I could.
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and for your cpu. Ads are the number one killer of performance.
I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a timeout like this, and writing a UI to control it. Then I realized that some middle manager in the guts of Microsoft probably got a bonus by being able to tell his management that "Microsoft" was now saving a collective million pennies a year of energy costs by crippling this basic feature. Well done, guys.
Where's the outrage from the colossal carbon footprint of the overarching, advertising-based economy? Does anyone have any idea what the electrical costs or carbon footprint per dollar of ad revenue is? It surely must be one of the lowest returns per environmental impact in the entire spectrum of capitalism. Sure, complain about cryptocurrency "setting the earth on fire," but Google gets a free pass for much the same thing to make their trillions?
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and for your cpu. Ads are the number one killer of performance.
I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18
Although this study doesn't discuss C02 emissions, it does discuss energy use and the potential impact of internet advertising.
Unfortunately, it only discusses the impact on client-side devices, the energy consumption of hardware used to serve advertisements (networking, servers) is left to a future study.
>Strikingly, uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually.
>So, for example, the 1.35 × 1010 kWh saved globally for using uBlock Origin is equivalent to more than 1.0% of the electricity generated per year from coal in the United States, which is responsible for the premature deaths of about 52,000 American every year from air pollution [43,44].
>Globally, the results with the most efficient open source ad blocker tested, uBlock Origin, would be even more substantial: ad blocking would save consumers more than $1.8 billion/year.
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#194I've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.
Living without YouTube can be hard though. Almost every online tutorial, product demo, music video, or other medium and long video material gets uploaded there.
that will change once users leave. I remember times where those videos were split between Vimeo and Youtube
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> What a weird little “accident” that Chromium just moves forward and loads all the trackers, “oopsie”. I wonder which kind of promotion the engineer who made that “mistake” has been awarded. This "bug" is in Safari/Webkit too, stop it with the conspiracy theory.
You realize that Apple is ad company too, right? Just like every other shitty tech company these days. Apple generated $5 billion in ad revenue in 2022.
From the app store ads mainly. Omitting this fact is dishonest at best.
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Can't you copy the url and open in incognito? If you are using Firefox you can open it in a container that is not logged into YouTube no ?
I did that a little. The friction is irritating and enough for me to walk away from the computer after only a few videos. It was just enough to break me from my normal veg and consooooom cycle.
Fair enough.
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I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a tim…
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing everywhere in their interfaces.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a tim…
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing with increased frequency.
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S10e was the peak of mobile design.
Preach! I'm holding onto it for dear life, perfect form factor, no BS.
I could've done without the useless Samsung button that doesn't do anything but whine for a Samsung account before you can change the behavior of the button. So I used adb to disable the button entirely, to prevent the whiny Samsung page from accidentally being pressed on the button raised off the left side of the s10e.