Video Advertisements responsible for global warming?
Think about it – when I navigate over to Digg and my processor utilization jumps to 100% because of the video advertisement, I’m burning more electricity than if there were a discreet text advertisement.
In addition to “lap warming”, this must be contributing to global warming as much as anything else (due to electricity usage). Flash advertisements seem to be the worst CPU offenders, especially those that have animated cursor tracking like the Sony advertisement on digg.com
Maybe it’s because I’m using Linux or maybe it’s Firefox – either way I’ll be looking around for a flash video / flash advertisement blocker later today.
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Ad Block Plus works wonders!
BitingHobo: I loaded Ad Block Plus, and I agree – it does a great job. However, there’s quite a large disagreement on the web right now on whether or not ABP is fair for the Internet. Some wonder how sites (like this one) will be able to monetize their content with lots of people using ABP.
I would like to configure ABP to just block flash ads, but looks like that’s not an option. In the meantime, I’ve got it installed, but disabled. When I happen upon those flash advertisements that give me grief, I enable it until I’m done with that particular site.