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This extension calculates the carbon footprint of the user's web activity
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Description from store
We put faith in technology to help us solve the current global warming crisis, and to provide us with ways of conserving our environment whilst meeting our energy needs. But is digital tech really green?
We like to think of the internet as this weightless, immaterial thing that exists ‘up there’ - but the reality is far different. The web relies on vast server farms that consume enormous amounts of energy, not to mention the carbon footprint associated with manufacturing all of our modern gadgets.
This Chrome browser extension monitors your web activity, and calculates the resulting carbon footprint. As you surf the web, the extension tracks how long you spend viewing a page, and uses a conservative estimate of 0.2 grams of CO2 per second. This total is displayed whenever you click on the extension, and can also display individual calculations for each of the websites that you visit.
This piece is part of a larger project - USER_FRIENDLY - by Dan Cainey, which uses Post-Internet art to examine people's increasing faith in technology.
www.dancainey.online
Latest reviews
- (2019-12-29) Gael Guennebaud: All this extension is doing is computing the time you spent on web pages and magically convert seconds to CO2e. But those two quantities are unrelated so the reported CO2 emission makes no sense. For instance, spending 1h to read a long text will be reported as costing you 6 times more than watching a 10mn video clip. Likewise, watching a video at 144p or 1080p will be reported as equal CO2 cost. Such an extension should measure the downloaded/uploaded bytes.