If you feel your Android phone warm up while you’re browsing the web or your PC/laptop/Chromebook makes high noise (cooling fan spins faster) when on a web page, then it might be due to purely coded and unoptimized ads on the web page. Chrome’s new Heavy Ad Intervention tool blocks such ads and stops eating up of a battery, data plans, and system resources. Chrome product manager Marshall Vale explains on Chromium blog how this feature works. “When an ad uses 4MB of network data or 15 seconds of CPU usage in any 30 second period or 60 seconds of total CPU usage, Chrome will shut down the ad”.
How to Enable Heavy Ad Intervention in Chrome?
Heavy Ad Intervention feature is currently available in the latest beta version of the Chrome browser (v.84) for Android, Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS. the feature will be available in the stable version of Chrome soon, which will block ads by default. Once you enabled the feature and if an ad on the web page reaches its threshold limit (4MB of network data), the ad’s frame will navigate to an error page, informing the user that the ad has used too many resources. Also read: How to enable Password Leak detection on Google Chrome for Android and Windows
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