Reply to post: Re: ads that demand excessive computation, bandwidth, or power

Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads

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Re: ads that demand excessive computation, bandwidth, or power

Yes, any add that is over 50KB or uses JavaScript should be banned. A simple JPEG and an a href tag are all that's needed, or even just text.

That is why I use NoScript. They can serve me a static ad, but they can't run JavaScript or multimedia.

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