Back to inactivity being a precursor to maximum CPU usage there is a bit of logic there. Many programs have background tasks that check for quiet periods when there is little or no I/O to do clean-up tasks or check for and download updates etc. Maybe they don't regulate or monitor themselves and ultimately peg the CPU at 100.
I had a laptop years ago where the fan started running more and more often and faster and faster and finally the computer refused to boot. Taking it apart I saw that the heatsink/fan connection had come away from the CPU. Over time the heat from the CPU had broken down the thermal paste that cemented it to the heatsink and the CPU eventually died.
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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
BTW, this is why I moved away from Chrome. That was difficult because I love the features. Then I found Brave.
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I've been looking at Brave lately too. I also see that Ghostery now has a browser in beta right now.
I don't like ads so for a while I ran a separate raspberry pi computer running an app called pi-hole that actually trapped a very high percentage of ads and sent them to a 'black hole' (hence the app's name). It looks to the sending site as if the ads are being rendered in your browser so the website doesn't complain about you using an ad-blocker. The downside was that it also prevented some tracking links from emails and shopping sites from working. My wife complained that she was getting errors preventing her from going to certain websites when she clicked the links. So, of course, I'm not running that any more.
