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by limomium 2191 days ago
> Memory is not very useful when you're not using it

It's also not very useful when someone else is hogging all of it! There is an opportunity cost to the user and other programs. It is supremely selfish to only think of oneself, and reserve all the common resources because "well it was just laying around".

I PAY for the capacity in case I NEED it, not for some bloated browser to snorf it all up because they can't be assed to write reasonable software.