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by drewmol 3233 days ago
>Also, this would make ad-blockers even more CPU intensive than they are.

Although they may be CPU intensive in terms of browser add-ons, I'm under the impression ad blockers are usually less CPU intensive than loading all the scripts required to display the ads, at least on particularly heavy pages. Does the CPU cost of blocker vs ads ever favor ads?