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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 154 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we'd save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't get me started on all this Ai agents who are crawling the web and scrapping everything

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 39 points 1 month ago

You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.

What's the downside for them?