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0 pointsnukemandan7y ago0 comments

But the cost to remove ads here is very worth spending that electricity over my attention.

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What about the environmental and other external costs?

I run an ad blocker most of the time because crappy ads and ad-tech uses a lot of bandwidth and battery. Crypto-mining is even worse for power consumption.

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0 pointsnukemandan7y ago0 comments

But the cost to remove ads here is very worth spending that electricity over my attention.

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criddell7y ago

What about the environmental and other external costs?

I run an ad blocker most of the time because crappy ads and ad-tech uses a lot of bandwidth and battery. Crypto-mining is even worse for power consumption.

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