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And how many decades if not centuries of daily CPU time are wasted thanks to ads on the internet?

est31 5y ago
Even worse: Google doodles: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-pac-man-on-google-wasted-4-8-million-hours/ https://www.cnet.com/news/study-pac-man-on-google-wasted-4-8...
- goldenkey 5y ago
  The doodles are a feckless attempt for Google to be personable despite their horns. Egh. Let the downvotes count the number of Google employees that mob HN everytime their chef-made lunch and massage provider is slighted. :-)
- pradn 5y ago
  If you call play "waste", I don't know what to tell you. Joy is what people live for, not maximizing their employers' ROI.
yitchelle 5y ago
Remember when you could turn off the graphic loading part of the browser, and essentially only browse the web in text mode. That would be save millennia of time.
- warrenm 5y ago
  ...except a huge portion of the web is image-based ...so turning that off would be pretty much pointless on most sites
  - gpvos 5y ago
    Yes. So, remember when that was not the case?
    - warrenm 5y ago
      I do But that's irrelevant Not loading images will nix >99% of what people actually use the web for
- aceazzameen 5y ago
  This reminds me of the Prodigy web browser in the 90s. The image toggle in the chrome was my favorite thing.
- Santosh83 5y ago
  I believe you can still do this with SeaMonkey. Or through a content blocker extension like uBlock Origin, on Firefox or Chrome.
politician 5y ago
Maybe we can refocus the people boosting proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains onto the "ads aren't green" meme instead.
kmlx 5y ago
wait till you find out about cryptocurrencies...
merb 5y ago
this is a stupid question. because else you would need to compare how much it would cost you to pay for visiting the site your going to and than calculating the energy costs of the transactions involved.
Wowfunhappy 5y ago
How much would there be to read on the internet without ads? I don't like ads but its the only business model that seems to be viable online, other than instituting outright paywalls. Or perhaps we should just burn it all down...

Even worse: Google doodles: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-pac-man-on-google-wasted-4-8-million-hours/ https://www.cnet.com/news/study-pac-man-on-google-wasted-4-8...

goldenkey 5y ago
The doodles are a feckless attempt for Google to be personable despite their horns. Egh. Let the downvotes count the number of Google employees that mob HN everytime their chef-made lunch and massage provider is slighted. :-)
pradn 5y ago
If you call play "waste", I don't know what to tell you. Joy is what people live for, not maximizing their employers' ROI.

yitchelle 5y ago

Remember when you could turn off the graphic loading part of the browser, and essentially only browse the web in text mode. That would be save millennia of time.

warrenm 5y ago
...except a huge portion of the web is image-based ...so turning that off would be pretty much pointless on most sites
- gpvos 5y ago
  Yes. So, remember when that was not the case?
  - warrenm 5y ago
    I do But that's irrelevant Not loading images will nix >99% of what people actually use the web for
aceazzameen 5y ago
This reminds me of the Prodigy web browser in the 90s. The image toggle in the chrome was my favorite thing.
Santosh83 5y ago
I believe you can still do this with SeaMonkey. Or through a content blocker extension like uBlock Origin, on Firefox or Chrome.

politician 5y ago

Maybe we can refocus the people boosting proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains onto the "ads aren't green" meme instead.

kmlx 5y ago

wait till you find out about cryptocurrencies...

merb 5y ago

this is a stupid question. because else you would need to compare how much it would cost you to pay for visiting the site your going to and than calculating the energy costs of the transactions involved.

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

How much would there be to read on the internet without ads? I don't like ads but its the only business model that seems to be viable online, other than instituting outright paywalls. Or perhaps we should just burn it all down...