Google Chrome to crack down on battery- and data-sucking display ads
Google’s Chrome browser will start blocking resource-heavy ads around the end of August, the company announced[1] Thursday. Ads that are programmed poorly, aren’t network-optimized or mine cryptocurrency (seriously) can affect users’ devices — hogging network data and draining batteries. “We have recently discovered that a fraction of a percent of ads consume a disproportionate share of device resources, such as battery and network data, without the user knowing about it,” Marshall Vale, a Chrome product manager wrote. What will...