• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.

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      Web “Apps” are also quite bad. Lots of and lots of stuff we’re downloading and it feels clunky.

      Sometimes that’s bad coding, poor optimization, third party libraries, or sometimes just including trackers/ads on the page.

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        I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.

        It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

        Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.