When it comes to environmental impact, almost nothing is free and of course when a zillion people all do the same thing, the impact can be serious. Here's an article about Netflix and wi-fi which has some uncomfortable stats about something most of us indulge in all the time I imagine:-
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45798523
Here's a very striking quote if you don't feel like reading the whole article:-
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The lead scientist, Rabih Bashroush, calculated that five billion downloads and streams clocked up by the song Despacito, released in 2017, consumed as much electricity as Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic put together in a single year.
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The article also talks about the energy consumption of having round-the-clock wi-fi. Do you keep the wi-fi running even when you know you'll be asleep for eight hours? In my case, guilty as charged, I'm sorry to say.
The only thing I can say in my defense is that I haven't downloaded the song Despacito - so that's good, right?