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Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.
My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.
Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.
And people ask why we use adblocks... my potato computer can't even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.
I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I'm reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?
I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!
It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.
Run pihole as a service... I think you can do that, maybe with a docker container?
What browser/OS? I didn't see any of that.
Android and Firefox
Are you not using ublock or something too? I didn't see any of that and is all I have installed. Maybe I just got lucky.
Not using ublock on my mobile until just now. I went to another location and opened it and this site wasn't as bad that time, just the paywall got me
try hitting reading mode before the site can fully load I've found that can bypass it 9/10
Ok, will try reading mode next time I see a paywall. Thanks for the tip!
Oh God, it's all over now, the bed bug experts have been compromised