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Re:Why don't you accept donations? by technion on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:45PM (#29468622)
It's actually a substantive money saver in a shared compute environment. Running Windows RDS or VDA solutions, you can actually watch CPU and RAM reductions across the board by deploying uBlock Origin.
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Re:Why don't you accept donations? by adrianN on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:05AM (#29469501)
I wonder how much CO2 uBlock origin saved so far.
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Re:Why don't you accept donations? by pjc50 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:47AM (#29470674)
The "this is a huge waste of energy in scamming people" argument deployed against cryptocurrency is also valid for traditional spam, and most web advertising, it's just that it's not so visible any more. Google must have a datacenter worth of computers doing classification on email.
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Re:Why don't you accept donations? by alcover on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:33AM (#29470594)
Me too. More broadly, I'd very much like an energy meter for web pages.
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Re:Why don't you accept donations? by agumonkey on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:46AM (#29469993)
Courthouse i'm in has obviously locked browser extensions but there's no adblock.. i can't help but see ublock's logo in the toolbar and imagine how much bandwidth that frail network would grab back if it was there.
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