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[–] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the constant over use of DNS pings to track your location because its good data to sell

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Look fuck them but my PC location data has got to be the least juicy datapoint they could possibly ask for. Surprise, it stayed on my desk.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft found something worse than Java

[–] libewa@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Javascript by itself isn't an issue. Many applications use javascript without issue

The problem is chromium and bloated graphical frameworks

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.

ECMAScript, the core language is fine.

JavaScript—with the DOM APIs—is not.

[–] wax@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

It's several distinct web views running simultaneously. I wonder why the memory footprint is not reused across these

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

no it doesn't. i've never been served an ad by microsoft weather. btw i use arch