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freedomrock1970

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5. PiHole for the win !!!

Reply to cos dem (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 03:54 PM

Apr 2020

I also installed a piHole and I highly recommend every household do so.

The amount of ads and trash that your browsers ask for and store is incredible.

This is one of the main reason the memory used is so large, they cache the ads so if you go to another page, boom here it is.

Pihole says fine, that's an ad, here is a big box of nothing instead back to the browser.

Memory usage stays low, Screens stay clean, internet usage does down, web pages load faster.

Hell, even games on tablets like candy crush don't load those crappy banner ads.

Like I said, Entire household, ad free.

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Questions for OS Techs wrt Memory Usage [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2020 OP

Web browsers are notorious. cos dem Apr 2020 #1

I should add that ad downloads in your browser are particularly bad. cos dem Apr 2020 #2

PiHole for the win !!! freedomrock1970 Apr 2020 #5

Tiny Correction pi-hole.net Sentath Apr 2020 #6

There is a process called Superfetch - Vista & newer SheltieLover Apr 2020 #3

Those readings are memory that's reserved by the program in case it needs it ... mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #4