| ??? 06/21/11 16:32 Read: times |
#182694 - web ads and content Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per Westermark said:
But the biggest problem is not really there. Even worse is all companies designing web pages with very inefficient active content. If we open a news paper page, our web browsers will instantly start to consume a number of percent of extra CPU capacity. And since several web browsers are now offloading some of the rendering to the graphcis cards, we also get higher load on them. The problem of web pages instantly consuming excess CPU cycles (and hence power) is mitigated by the use of browser plug-ins such as AdBlock, Click2Flash, FlashBlock and the like. It's really nice to load the NY Times web page (for example) without seeing all of the distractions. Now, one might argue that the use of ad-block software is the reason the Times went behind the paywall, but hey: it's MY browser and MY computer, so the Times and other content-providers can GFT. Flash is particularly power-hungry and heinous, which is the real reason Flash isn't allowed on the iPhone. -a (Aside: if you click on as many ads as possible, the advertiser has to pay for those clicks. Maybe someone oughta write a plug-in that clicks everything as fast as possible, multiple times ...) |
