On: Your Web, Half a Second Sooner

[nekgrim]

A little pretentious, but it's a great news to see that sometimes, ads seller are thinking about optimizations (I'm looking at you, flash banner ads)

[pavel_lishin → nekgrim]

I vowed to never surf again without Flashblock after some ads started automatically yelling at me with sound and video.

[Tycho → pavel_lishin]

Everytime I load my homepage (Yahoo UK) on my desktop (a G4 Mac Mini), I can hear the fans speed up dramatically to cope with the additional CPU burden introduced by the Flash ads.

It makes me wonder how much energy is spent on a) spinning the fans to serve these ads b) forcing people to upgrade their otherwise-perfectly-capable computers

Globally it probably equates to quite a big figure.