Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones

Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by Tycho on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @05:39PM (#32843756)

My work MacBook Pro had been running hot for months. Whenever I check the app power consumption it would list Chrome, but I felt that was to be expected. Eventually I got curious and looked at the Task Manager within Chrome to see which of the many tabs was actually using a lot of CPU/memory/energy. Turns out this niche Scottish ancestry website, with a mostly-text layout and a 1990s advertising banner was hogging almost an entire core, constantly, in the background. And this had been going on for months!

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Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by wildrhythms on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:16PM (#32844150)

Every web developer and designer should be forced to experience their site on a low-power Chromebook or rPi before they can launch it.

In an ideal world, web browsers would enforce some reasonable runtime memory cap (let's say 5MB for now) and CPU limit on websites, and users must give permission for the site to break the cap.

Or perhaps a search engine that establishes some reasonable resource caps and de-ranks websites that break the cap.

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Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by kramerger on Thursday September 15, 2022 @02:21AM (#32847835)

I think this is a great idea.

At the same time, a lot of pages are still broken in Firefox since they introduced tracking protection 2-3 years ago.

So I don't see devs fixing, or users caring enough about this issue to cause a change in devs attitude.

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Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by Kuinox on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:50AM (#32849042)

Lot of web devs know their website is slow but can't do anything about it, they don't choose where to spend time, the manager do.

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Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by Tycho on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:02PM (#32859025)

Maybe we can force Google to do this through ESG activism.

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Re:Carbon footprint of unwanted data use by smartphones by r00fus on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:04PM (#32844667)

So I wonder how much that text-mostly website consume without the Ad banner (ie, content blocked).

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