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Chrome to Block Battery-Sucking Ads in August Update
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I switched back to Firefox last year and haven't looked back. They used to be the king of the browser wars, and with their focus on privacy and less RAM usage I'm glad to be back with them. If you remember Firefox...give it a try. It'll surprise you.
4jasontv was asking about the Brave browser too.
So trying to share the browser info.
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I hope you do know Opera is own by China now, right?
I used to like it until it switched to Chromium and own by China.
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I am on Firefox too, but there is a slight issue with it.
There is a bug where I cannot use a foreign language input correctly and is only happening in Firefox.
Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Safari along with Edge does not exhibit such issue.
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Wow! Who knew?Chrome Product Manager Marshall Vale said:
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I actually followed the link in this MacRumors article back to Marshall Vale’s Chromium Blog post to see if Google really said this, and as incredible as it seems, they did.
Either Google’s engineers are staggeringly unobservant, or their product managers are.
Most of our employees with Mac laptops use Chrome because we provide GSuite accounts to everyone, and sometimes our enterprise apps don't support Safari or Firefox. We regularly have to take MacBooks in for new batteries or recall batteries, and I'm wondering if the use of Chrome contributes to this problem. Our users also tend to have lots of tabs open.
Seconded on Brave. Been using it on my Windows PC and Android phone as my primary browser. The built-in ad blocking is a huge plus.
I'm also warming up to Microsoft's webkit-based Edge. I literally only use Chrome if there are legacy sites that simply requires all its scripts not to be blocked and incompatible with any sort of ad-blocking/privacy tools.
The browser whose reason for existence is to datamine to serve ads, will block ads?
Brave is great on paper but meh in practice. I went back to Firefox.
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Yeah, it supports Windows and Mac too.
I was talking about safari.
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I think it was August 22, 2016.
I wish Safari could be my primary browser but they have some catching up to do in UX and privacy/blocking. Not to mention how poorly Safari handles audio in sped up video playback. 🤮
I think it’s been half a decade since the last time Safari for Windows was updated.
I was. Thank you for describing it
I‘m sure they‘ll design it around their own ad networks rules, so it won‘t affect any of their ad customers.
I get that quite as but on Firefox or Safari. I have noticed the biggest issues occur when it is a controversial subject and lots of comments are being posted. If the story is benign or Fox has turned off the comment section then all runs fine.
Im currently running Chrome Beta Version 83.0.4103.56 (Official Build) beta (64-bit) with ABP and no issues so far. As for ads, under commercial law no ads can be served unless a contract exists between the user and the site itself, and in addition all terms and conditions must be available before a single ad is served. If no contract exists, then no ads can be served as detailed here: https://adblockplus.org/blog/five-and-oh-look-another-lawsuit-upholds-users-rights-online from the Munich Regional Court.
Excerpt "In particular, the court said that there is no “contract” between publishers under which users have somehow “agreed” to view all the ads a publisher serves. To the contrary, said the court, users have the right to block those or any ads, because no such contract exists." Additionally, The ‘implied contract’ theory that we’ve agreed to view ads in exchange for free content is void because we can’t review the terms first — as soon as we follow a link, our browsers load, execute, transfer, and track everything embedded by the publisher. Our data, battery life, time, and privacy are taken by a blank cheque with no recourse.”
So far over 3,000,000 ads blocked.
Excerpt "In particular, the court said that there is no “contract” between publishers under which users have somehow “agreed” to view all the ads a publisher serves. To the contrary, said the court, users have the right to block those or any ads, because no such contract exists." Additionally, The ‘implied contract’ theory that we’ve agreed to view ads in exchange for free content is void because we can’t review the terms first — as soon as we follow a link, our browsers load, execute, transfer, and track everything embedded by the publisher. Our data, battery life, time, and privacy are taken by a blank cheque with no recourse.”
So far over 3,000,000 ads blocked.
Anyone read "Chrome to Block Battery-Sucking Ads in August Update" as Google Chrome is blocking ads highlighting the fact Chrome is Battery-Sucking?
Wouldn't be the first time Google censored for anti-competitive reasons. Just look at the anti-competitive scams Google pulls all the time from blocking Chromium-based Microsoft Edge from Google services, to killing Windows Phone by blocking them from their APIs. Funny how the dishonest firm with the motto "Don't be evil" is the real monopoly...
Wouldn't be the first time Google censored for anti-competitive reasons. Just look at the anti-competitive scams Google pulls all the time from blocking Chromium-based Microsoft Edge from Google services, to killing Windows Phone by blocking them from their APIs. Funny how the dishonest firm with the motto "Don't be evil" is the real monopoly...
Strange. For me Firefox is the quickest, plus it scrolls smoother than Chrome and keeps zipping along when I switch between tabs when having a lot of them open – Safari can still get sluggish when it comes to tab switching despite the Safari 13.1 which improved that. However, I don't like the ”Windows style” truncated pop-up menus that Firefox has and the contextual menu is not dark despite the rest of the browser being set to dark mode.
Targeting ads that use more than 4MB?! (a full mid quality 4mins mp3 song or... a full 32hrs long SNES game), 15secs of CPU usage during 30secs windows? Is that throttled or at 100% cpu? (15sec at full can jump start cooling fans).
How about, 512KB and 2sec of cpu usage for showing that crappy compressed looking ad banner somewhere on the frame? I’m being generous, these parasitic ads deserve no resources at all... but hey, let’s be fair and try to keep most of the internet ‘free’.
How about, 512KB and 2sec of cpu usage for showing that crappy compressed looking ad banner somewhere on the frame? I’m being generous, these parasitic ads deserve no resources at all... but hey, let’s be fair and try to keep most of the internet ‘free’.
On the recommendation of members in the “Alternatives to iOS” section of the forum, I disabled Chrome on my Android device. Best advice I ever received.
Can anyone recommend an ad blocker for Chrome on Windows? I would preferably like to get it from the Microsoft store and it NOT be some type of Spyware.
Can anyone recommend an ad blocker for Chrome on Windows? I would preferably like to get it from the Microsoft store and it NOT be some type of Spyware.
Good idea... Should have been implemented around 2005. Flash ads anyone?
When you load a website (especially on a mobile device) and 95% of the traffic is wasted for ads, websites must not complain about blocked ads.
There always needs to be balance:
Static content website (text) => Static ads (no videos or moving content)
Website content: 500KB => max adsize 500KB, not 5MB
Website CPU usage: 5% => ad usage 5% max
etc.
If ads in newspapers would be the way ads in the internet are, news papers be 5 times as thick as they are now.
And at the end of every page there would be a random stock photo with a text above it saying something like "She did that and you wouldn't believe what happened then". Once in a while the newspaper will be delivered with a supplement of 50 pages that mostly contains ads with little content in the middle of about 1-2 sentences where you have to continue reading a single article over 50 pages that turns out to be total BS.
When you load a website (especially on a mobile device) and 95% of the traffic is wasted for ads, websites must not complain about blocked ads.
There always needs to be balance:
Static content website (text) => Static ads (no videos or moving content)
Website content: 500KB => max adsize 500KB, not 5MB
Website CPU usage: 5% => ad usage 5% max
etc.
If ads in newspapers would be the way ads in the internet are, news papers be 5 times as thick as they are now.
And at the end of every page there would be a random stock photo with a text above it saying something like "She did that and you wouldn't believe what happened then". Once in a while the newspaper will be delivered with a supplement of 50 pages that mostly contains ads with little content in the middle of about 1-2 sentences where you have to continue reading a single article over 50 pages that turns out to be total BS.
Are you suggesting there is a Windows version of Safari? I don't think that's true anymore unless something has changed recently.
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This is what I was always saying when people were complaining about flash. Flash was just a tool that can be used any way a dev wants, and at the time was actually way more efficient than JS. Trying to replicate a complex function in JS (like a 3d rendering engine) used significantly more resources than in Flash.
Killing flash was such a useless move because the actual problem was always browsers allowing runaway CPU usage. Whether that CPU usage is driven by Flash or now JS doesn't make any difference to the users drained battery.
You can already enable it in Chrome and Edge by navigating to chrome://flags/#enable-heavy-ad-intervention (copy and paste that link into the addressbar). Switch it to 'Enabled', and press the 'Relaunch' button at the bottom to restart your browser.
If Brave had a way to sync across devices then it would replace Chrome on all of my devices. But in its current state, Brave is my main browser on my low resource devices (I own some Windows-based devices that are old or have a low amount of RAM).