"This web page is using significant energy"

[jimmy156]

Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your Mac.

I get this warning in safari whenever i browse the PH forums. PH is the only website that every gives me this warning. Not exactly sure whats going on?

Cheers,
James

[Durzel]

A million onerous tracking scripts etc?

[Mr E]

Durzel said:

A million onerous tracking scripts etc?

This.

[Mr Happy]

I believe that "https://static.pistonheads.com/5584/Assets/bundles/uhscripts.js" is the culprit.

I've got it disabled on uMatrix, and can sit on PH with the CPU at 0%, however once it's enabled, the CPU sits at between 3-6% just idling on the page.

(eta. I do have issues with PH loading images correctly so I believe this script has something to do with that)

I haven't gone over what the script is doing as of yet though.

Edited by Mr Happy on Saturday 18th August 12:59

[Mastodon2]

That's why I switched to using Brave Browser when using PH on my phone, it let's you see how many stty clickbait ads you have dodged and all of the odious little scripts PH tries to use.

I wouldn't be surprised if PH is trying to run some sort of mining bot net.

[768]

Mr Happy said:

I haven't gone over what the script is doing as of yet though.

It's doing a setTimeout((){}, 1) - basically an infinite loop.