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I am increasingly encountering news sites that detect ad blocking software and (understandably) refuse to show me their content as a result but the problem is t

I am increasingly encountering news sites that detect ad blocking software and (understandably) refuse to show me their content as a result but the problem is that I enabled ad-blocking on those sites to begin with because they were loading nasty javascript ads on the fly which pegged my CPU! As a web dev, I feel extremely conscious about what I'd call "javascript library hygiene", and I feel that whoever's in charge of many of the news sites out there, just does not give a shit. Respect my computer's resources and you'll get your ads re-enabled.

simmons 8y ago
I've noticed that a lot of sites will end up using 100% CPU usage on their Chrome tab. I haven't investigated, but I do wonder what sort of faulty design leads to this. You occasionally hear talk of sites using your CPU to mine cryptocurrency, but I'm more inclined to suspect lousy programming. I sometimes wish I had an easy way in Chrome to restrict a tab to, say, 5% CPU, for the cases where the CPU usage is clearly not adding any value. Just so I can get through an article without the fan ramping up.
- lainga 8y ago
  renice 19 ?
  - simmons 8y ago
    It's my understanding that renice doesn't limit CPU usage, but rather adjusts the process's priority in the scheduler relative to other processes. So I don't think it would stop a process from eating up all available idle cycles, draining the battery, and ramping up the fan.
    - TeMPOraL 8y ago
      Also, I don't think there's a trivial way to get the PID of the process handling a particular tab.
      - kps 8y ago
        In Chrome, Task Manager shows PID along with CPU & memory usage.
paulie_a 8y ago
I've noticed that trend also. Those are websites I keep a mental note to not visit. They usually have bottom of the barrel ads anyways and shitty content.