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MacRumors Site/Forums Causing Battery Drain?
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@arn Even after I finished posting the last message, CPU usage stayed high... I had to quit Safari to resolve it.
Hmm, this has always been of concern for me with my iPhone. Sooooo hot.
So, disabled Javascript and no longer generating heat. Both on iPhone and Mac.......
So, disabled Javascript and no longer generating heat. Both on iPhone and Mac.......
2. I'd be curious to see if "Debug Triggered" appears more than once.
Just once on each page load.
My issue is with the iPhone.
Thanks to another user post I solved the Mac CPU usages simply adding
127.0.0.1 ads.adthrive.com
127.0.0.1 ads.pubmatic.com
to my HOST file on my Mac. No need to use an ADBlocker.
I tried the same on my iPhone (adding several servers to my router and blocking them), but it doesn't worked
unfortunately.
So you saw high cpu at the same time you only saw one debug triggered message per page load?
arn
My battery health was 91 percent when I started coming on here with my phone… in the matter of about a month, it’s 86 percent. Phone gets hot, battery drains extremely quick.
adthrive again - for me this domain turned out to be the culprit, and ever since I blocked it with Little Snitch, the MR Forums work like a charm. Has not acted up once ever since.
Thanks to your post, my issue was solved on the Mac. ☺️??
Not problems since then.
Unfortunately not worked for the iPhone. I blocked adthrive with my router and also tried an ADBlock and is still burning my hand.
Do you had the problem in your iPhone as well?
Honestly, I'm not really surfing MacRumors on my phone. So I'm afraid I won't be of much help in that regards.
I find it curious that even with an AdBlocker you can't get it to behave on your phone. Because when I did the testing on my Mac, an AdBlocker solved the issue for me as well, but I did not want to keep it on all the time and for all sites, so that's why I kept looking for another solution.
But with the AdBlocker active, do you see any ads on the MacRumors page and/or forums on your iPhone?
Unfortunately I am not tech-savvy enough to really know how different platforms (Mac, iPhone) handle sites differently, but I would consider it odd that blocking a domain on the Mac helps, while blocking all ads (and thus that domain as well) on the iPhone does not help at all.
Unless the cause for the iPhone issue is something completely different ... :-/
Tried 3 different ad blockers on my iPhone. Not ad's were displayed but the issue persisted.
I think that's something else happening on the iPhone. Maybe an iOS bug? Not sure at this point.
A couple weeks ago, Arn did some changes and it was fixed on my side, but since the last week has been unbearable.
Is worse than ever right now. ??♂️
Ya sorry to hear that it got worse.
Hmm. I do think it’s some sort of iOS bug. We aren’t doing anything particularly crazy with JavaScript. As I have more time I’ll work on other things to try to sort through it . If it happened on my phone or mac, it would be a lot easier to track down.
Another casualty of the excessive battery drain on my 2021 iPad Pro 12.9. I had heard this being an issue But never had a problem on my 2018 iPad Pro 12.9. I dropped 13% in 40 minutes just reading forums this morning and noticed my iPad was warm as well. Just before I left the MacRumors page my iPad was losing 1% every 2 minutes tops. I went under Debug mode, and tried turning off JavaScript but I use too many websites, mostly my school D2L website that requires JavaScript so that is an unacceptable solution. So strange that this issues exists across platforms including iPhone, iPad, and Mac with both Intel and Apple Silicon. I’m not sure what else to do
Turning off Javascript was never presented as a solution. Just a data-point to see if it helped or not.
I thought turning off Javascript was a possible fix? I am merely saying for me that won’t work since I need it on for many other websites I use daily. This is an interesting problem. I wonder if any other forum moderators are experiencing this.
I don’t expect anyone to leave JavaScript off. It’s not a long term solution for anyone, but knowing it doesn’t happen with JavaScript helps isolate it to that specifically.
@arn Still getting the same issues with debug mode on (both on my Mac and the iPhone), even after your latest changes. Nothing conspicuous in the console or the logs.
It could indeed be a bug in newest Safari and/or core OS code. But it's weird that it only triggers on MR...
It could indeed be a bug in newest Safari and/or core OS code. But it's weird that it only triggers on MR...
It definitely has to do with ads. I have not had this problem since I became a contributor.
@arn - for contributors, do you just remove ads, or is there more that is removed?
@arn - for contributors, do you just remove ads, or is there more that is removed?
I’m sure ads can cause it. But if it was just ads this thread would be over a long time ago
Contributors only eliminates the ads from loading. Any ad blocker would accomplish the same thing. There’s some other issue somewhere which happens for some users.
arn
Looks like I should only read forum in laptop until this is resolved because my new iPhone 13 seems to run out of juice fairly quick and I visit this site often, and I have an ad blocker already.
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