The Internet consumes about 8% of the electricity produced in the world and emits about 3% of greenhouse gases.
The manufacture of the various devices that form the internet's eco-system (from smartphones to datacenters, passing through 4G antennas) is also a consumer of water and particularly polluting and destructive for the extraction of the metals that make up all these digital tools.
Reducing the amount of data and the use of the Internet is one way of limiting the significant growth of digital pollution. About 55% of the electricity is consumed when used by devices, antennas or data centers.
This page references resources available to reduce the bandwidth and/or energy consumption of our devices, especially when using the Internet.
Feel free to PR or send me an email ( vico @@@ lowweb.tech ) for any modifications or suggestions.
- Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/
- Brave https://brave.com/
- uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock ( Firefox / Chromium )
- Ghostery https://www.ghostery.com/ ( Firefox / Chromium )
- Minimal https://minimal.aupya.org/ ( Firefox / Chromium )
- Low https://github.com/lowwebtech/low-web-extension ( Firefox / Chromium )
- Bare blocker https://bare.eco/projects/bare-blocker/ ( Firefox / Chromium )
- Carbonalyser https://theshiftproject.org/en/carbonalyser-browser-extension/ ( Firefox )
- GreenIT-Analysis ( Firefox / Chromium )
- enable low power mode
- disable background app refresh
- enable data saver mode
- enable dark-mode on OLED screens
- turn off notifications and push
- turn off your phone or switch on airplane mode at night
- buy a refurbished phone, repair it and keep it as long as possible
- buy a protective shell and a screen protection
- Enable data saver mode https://support.google.com/android/answer/9458407?hl=en
- Restrict app background data
- Update apps over Wi-Fi only
- Optimize account sync settings
Some websites or apps offer options to reduce energy and data consumption like disabling autoplay, reducing quality.
- https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=videos Video default quality : SD only auto-play videos : off (the first seconds of the videos are still preloaded but not played)
- link for setting quality video ?
- https://twitter.com/settings/data
- https://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-twitters-new-data-saver-feature-on-your-phon-1829523886 (iOS & Android)
- https://help.instagram.com/379494505495970 (iOS & Android)
- https://www.reddit.com/settings/feed Autoplay media : off