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[adamredwoods]

I would have read the article, but after a few nag-popups and ads, my laptop fan kicked on, so I closed it. Space.com is one of the few websites I care about that I would like to be a bit more browser-friendly.

[niij → adamredwoods]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[binkHN → adamredwoods]

Firefox's reading mode is a godsend.

[interludead → adamredwoods]

Nothing kills the reading mood faster than popups and a struggling laptop fan

[486sx33 → adamredwoods]

AdGuard on safari has zero pop ups or nags for me

[reportgunner → adamredwoods]

Somebody photographed a military satelite, not much to see.

[TacticalCoder → adamredwoods]

> ... but after a few nag-popups and ads, my laptop fan kicked on

On my Linux I have 12 workspaces or so and my main browser is always on a specific workspace. Then I configured my system to always put the CPU in "powersave" mode when I'm switching to that workspace. Actually all my workspaces besides the one where I do dev are in powersave. Fixes the fan issue. Works for GPUs too (there are tools to configure the max TDP of a GPU: even if approximative, it works).

I'm also blocking ads / millions of domains at the DNS (I'm running both unbound and dnsmasq).

[binkHN → TacticalCoder]

How does powersave mode help here? All it does is slow everything down when you're in that workspace.