Last week, a great deal of discussion about ad blocking and its effect on memory usage took place. This makes a lot of sense, and explains why my memory usage has always been really high.
I’m not sure there’s a lot you can do about it. One of these days I’m going to get around to standing up a pfsense box, which, among other things, can serve as a web cache and block ads for an entire network. My family has enough machines to justify that, and, given that security is what I do for a living, it’s something I need to be experimenting with anyway.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He started his career as a part-time computer technician in 1994, worked his way up to system administrator by 1997, and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He invests in real estate on the side and his hobbies include O gauge trains, baseball cards, and retro computers and video games. A University of Missouri graduate, he holds CISSP and Security+ certifications. He lives in St. Louis with his family.