Annoyed with adverts using 100% CPU

[geraint]

so if you just leave your machine on.. whether a laptop or a pc.it will load a flash ad.. i must add i know nothing about it... just curious and willing to learn...

No, you're trolling. Go away.

so i guess you are ****ting... believe it or not... i am not..

if you feel that i am... you must have an internal problem...
i1e1 so insecure that you have to insult me.... ha ha..

how sad for you...

 

[Mickymoody]

Download an ad blocker, use those inbuilt, or use your browers settings to block them. Or reboot your web browser, to stop it eating up memory in a loop.

Facebook, and Skype are worst at the moment, but Skype has been hacked, so has many re-requests of the same page to bring it down, hence slowing it down/crashing it. As Skype and Facebook are now partners, slows all the internet down.

If your compy runs slow, press ctrl, alt del, go to device manager, see any process running over 30,000k, shut it down, adverts don't do that. Even if IE is running that, shut it down, and restart it.

 

[Mickymoody]

Or also goto Start, run, type MSCONFIG, startup, and disable all the crap that loads at startup, and get rid of all the shortcuts on the desktop, right click them, delete, the programme is not gone, just the shortcut to it.

 

[digdilem]

Firefox, adblocker and flashblocker.

What annoying adverts?

 

[ajrobb]

I thought I'd made it clear, I already block these sites (with Firefox and ABP). By blocking the power-hungry adverts, I am concious that I am taking a free lunch. So, thank you very much, I'm all right.

My argument is that many interesting host sites are funded by 'click through' action on adverts and I don't want them to fail just because most of their tech-savvy readers block their revenue stream.

 

[securespark]

do the adverts on your television make it work harder....

Well, they are louder due to compression, so would that use more power?

 

[ajrobb]

TV adverts in soaps make the national grid work harder. These spikes need less efficient toppers to fill, so are wasting energy. Like I object to laptop fan noise, I dislike loud TV adverts. Why don't advertisers understand that shouting is rude and puts us genteel folk off.