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by crtasm 819 days ago
Doesn't really work out for anyone running on battery.
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If done right, this might actually be more energy efficient than having to download and render all those unoptimized ads.
The way it works right now is already efficient. The adblock-enabled browser doesn't spend energy on rendering ads. If the website then blocks the user from the content then the user leaves.
I'd be interested to see a calculation on how much value could be extracted from the same amount of CPU cycles mining crypto - my gut feeling is it would be orders of magnitude smaller.