• crispbacon99@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

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

    • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish
      31·
      2 days 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.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

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

        The problem is chromium and bloated graphical frameworks

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days 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.nuEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

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

  • BussyGyatt@feddit.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

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