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minus-square@CptObliviuslinkEnglish11•1 year 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]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year 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]linkfedilinkEnglish-2•edit-21 year agoThat would be an ecological disaster (figuratively, but still), since all those requests and processor cycles have a cost
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoHere’s a lead https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoit would not replace multiplayer games. it would add to the load. strawman moot point.
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoWhat I mean is that the relative resources use is insignificant
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoAre you proposing to replace multiplayer games with random web requests ?
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoNo. How hard can it be to understand it’s a comparison of total load?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoHow hard can it be to converse nonviolently ?
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.
This already exists btw
Or, you know, just don’t use Chrome or Google!
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.
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?
Here’s a lead
https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/
Any more than regular multiplayer games? No?
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
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 ?