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by phailhaus 1555 days ago
> It's slow and bloated to force you out of chrome/firefox and into the app they control.

Yes, but nobody makes a slow and bloated app on purpose. It's slow and bloated because they have deprioritized the web app.

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The interstitial propeller pages on mobile browsers are definitely purposeful delays to degrade the web experience. Switch to the desktop site and all of a sudden pages reload immediately.