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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoSomeone needs to make an extension that googles random stuff all the time and floods ones history with so much background noise that the history becomes useless.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-22 years agoThat would be an ecological disaster (figuratively, but still), since all those requests and processor cycles have a cost
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoWhat’s the watts-per-search of google?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAre you proposing to replace multiplayer games with random web requests ?
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoNo. How hard can it be to understand it’s a comparison of total load?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoHow hard can it be to converse nonviolently ?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoit would not replace multiplayer games. it would add to the load. strawman moot point.
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoWhat I mean is that the relative resources use is insignificant
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI recommend using ‘Adnauseam’ for Firefox. It hides ads in addition to clicking them. This generates revenue for the site and also obscures your digital footprint.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoOr, you know, just don’t use Chrome or Google!
Someone needs to make an extension that googles random stuff all the time and floods ones history with so much background noise that the history becomes useless.
That would be an ecological disaster (figuratively, but still), since all those requests and processor cycles have a cost
What’s the watts-per-search of google?
Any more than regular multiplayer games? No?
Are you proposing to replace multiplayer games with random web requests ?
No. How hard can it be to understand it’s a comparison of total load?
How hard can it be to converse nonviolently ?
it would not replace multiplayer games. it would add to the load. strawman moot point.
What I mean is that the relative resources use is insignificant
This already exists btw
I recommend using ‘Adnauseam’ for Firefox.
It hides ads in addition to clicking them. This generates revenue for the site and also obscures your digital footprint.
Or, you know, just don’t use Chrome or Google!