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How to fix the internet
(www.technologyreview.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
And people ask why we use adblocks... my potato computer can't even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.
I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I'm reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?
Run pihole as a service... I think you can do that, maybe with a docker container?
I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!
It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.