And they ask why we use adblocks… my potato computer can’t even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.
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nucleative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I’m reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was registering high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!
It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Run pihole as a service
z500@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
What browser/OS? I didn't see any of that.
nucleative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Android and Firefox
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
Are you not using ublock or something too? I didn't see any of that and is all I have installed. Maybe I just got lucky.
nucleative@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not using ublock on my mobile until just now. I went to another location and opened it and this site wasn’t as bad that time, just the paywall got me
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.