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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Tbf most ads are on text news articles, one image can take up thousands of times more data than a few words.

And it's cached... and there are CDNs... Still way more energy than you want, but not quite as panic inducing as it sounds.