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If anyone is curious (like I was) what exactly is being shown here, the author initially wrote a post in 2016 describing VPAID ad interfaces[0].

It appears this whole thing got started when the Author (who founded AndroidPolice) got a bug request about an AP site ad[1].

[0]: https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/VgrLdYcoifr

[1]: https://github.com/archon810/androidpolice-public/issues/67

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This may actually explain why watching videos in the browser sometimes causes the computer to heat up comparably to a new AAA gaming title.

That's more likely a lack of hardware acceleration I recently learned, if you're talking about youtube. They use VP9 by default, which isn't hardware accelerated in most cases.

I installed this recently and the difference in heat and battery life on my Macbook Pro is astounding. https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

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