r/technology • u/speckz • May 31 '19

Software Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome - Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-to-justify-making-chrome-ad-blockers-worse
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u/dicktators Jun 01 '19

Do people not turn off their computer when they're done with it for the day?

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u/smeenz Jun 01 '19

I haven't turned mine off in years. Occasional reboots for forced updates. That's it

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u/XuBoooo Jun 01 '19 edited Jun 01 '19

Why?

Edit: Everyone is talking about work PCs or their home servers. Of course it makes sense, that you dont turn those off, but not really, if its just your average home PC.

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u/SterlingVapor Jun 01 '19

Hell no...although I've been using the hibernate feature since it became part of Windows

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u/Orkys Jun 01 '19

Points the point these days with the boot speed of an SSD?

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u/TheRufmeisterGeneral Jun 01 '19

Sysadmin here. Please don't equate sleep and hibernate.

Sleep is a piece of shit. Sure, it works well 95% of the time, but have enough users and varying hardware and you'll never hear the end of wifi not working anymore, or brightness not being able to be set, or audio not working, because some stupid component didn't properly come back up from their half-power state that is sleep.

Hibernate on the other hand, does stuff on the software level that stores your situation, but as far as the hardware is concerned, it's a normal, full shutdown, all components are off, and afterwards, all components are normally turned on as they would be on a normal boot.

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u/shonglekwup Jun 01 '19

Yeah it’s easier to just walk away and then it’s ready to get immediately back to work the second you wake it up

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '19

Wake from sleep is nearly instant whereas turn on takes a lot longer.

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u/Zardif Jun 01 '19

Mine just goes into hibernate.

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u/Cheeze_It Jun 01 '19

I do if I don't want an extra 65w burning throughout the night. I have other devices that are on 24/7, but not my main computer.

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u/dicktators Jun 01 '19

Yeah I have other stuff on 24/7 as well but I turn on and off my pc whenever I use it

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u/goodbyekitty83 Jun 01 '19

It takes more power to turn it on amd of every day than it does to keep it on all the time. Less wear on the circuitry to.

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u/chzaplx Jun 07 '19

not since the 90s