Make ADN work only when user is idle about adnauseam HOT 7 CLOSED

I agree.

And I think the most resource hungry part is gathering the ads. If ADN can extract ads only in idle or doing it with the lowest CPU priority, the performance will be greatly improved.

The downside is also obvious that there will be no real time ads list from the ADN menu (at least not a very accurate one).
At the meantime it could also be an excuse to not to extract / collect every ads on a certain webpage because users hardly notice it (not real time updating).

To think more about it, for the ADN vault page we can gradually build up the ad collage in the background (as a static HTML web page). Or something like Google maps that it streams data instead of loading and popping all the things at once.

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The original ticket here was about only doing ad visiting during idle time, yes?
I can't imagine giving up the real-time ad detection feature...

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Ok, so this needs to a cross platform method for determining browser idle-time (to be added to vAPI) - @yansh, want to take a crack at this ?

Useful? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15262511/how-to-detect-idle-state-on-the-browser-which-use-webkit-in-jquery

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I think we can realize a simple method for this, simply by checking time since last onPageLoad() in core.js.

Relates to #252

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potential solution in PR above, checking the time of last onPageLoad and only visiting pages when that time is higher than 20 seconds.
Perhaps there should be an exception for visiting ads when they are clicked on in the vault ( I saw visiting ads while they are inspected already has priority) - or generally disregarding idle state when the user is opening the vault / interacting with ADN.

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See #663

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