Screenshot of Activity Monitor showing high CPU use from TechCrunch.

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   Nick Heer (nickheer@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 19:48:30 JST Nick Heer

   Websites like TechCrunch using Admiral have gotten very aggressive at telling you to turn off your ad blocker, so now I get to read something that is mostly text, yet still hogs 20–40% of my CPU and requires a thousand HTTP requests and 36 MB of stuff. The web is so cool.