Originally published at: https://ethical.net/technology/how-to-reduce-your-internet-carbon-footprint/
About three years ago, I found out that the internet has a carbon footprint. While browsing, I clicked on an article about Bitcoin and discovered that mining cryptocurrencies uses unfathomable amounts of energy. In fact, it uses so much processing power that the best option for many cryptocurrencies is to house their servers in Icelandic…
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I know this is an old article, but I’d like to fire up the discussion again. You can reduce the internet’s energy usage on your (mobile) device, your wifi router, at your ISP, at the hosting companies by using an ad blocker. I built a service to proof exactly this: https://webtest.app/?url=https://boingboing.net.
Two reasons:
- Your browser does way less requests this is a win for your device, but also for all the servers and switches that don’t have to handle your request.
- When you see less ads you are less inclined to buy stuff you don’t need.
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Hello,
I developed the WebCarbon Calculator, to calculate the digital footprint of internet consumption like mailing attachments, Cloud storage (file upload/download), streaming (Netflix/Amazon Movies, Youtube Videos, Porn), Webmeetings.
https://co2.digitaler-harz.de/
My goal is to make people aware what consumption can cause, to reduce the own footprint, the site is hold minimal and not bloated with not necessary code.
I have shared it in few groups, but didnt got any valuable response on this topic.
Looking for feedback and would be glad if you can share it.