Google Chrome could soon block CPU-hogging web adverts

[HEXUS]

Work-in-progress Chromium commit seeks to limit ads to 0.1 per cent CPU time.

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[Faiakes]

Or you can run pihole on your entire network for the one off cost of a raspberry pi.

[Saracen999]

What he said. ^^^^

[ByteMyAscii]

They could not be resource hogs if they were static images, or did not autoplay without permission.
They need to fix the problem at the source, what types of content are able to be hosted as ads.
CPU utilisation is a useless measure when hardware can vary so significantly.
What makes something more impactful on a lower specced system would not be so on a higher specced one, but the impact of it should not be ignored in that case.

[sinhaomar]

We'll see. As it will be)

[peterb]

Or you can run pihole on your entire network for the one off cost of a raspberry pi.

Which is what I do.

[excalibur1814]

Or use your hosts file.

[rave_alan]

Mozilla's alternative sounds good, we will see how it works in a real world.

[ddr4000]

I hope Chrome can become less intensive, always felt like I was frying my laptop's 4GB ram