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by dilan-dio4 1437 days ago
Eh. I mean when you boil it down, they need to pack a ton of functionality into a statically served web pages. In order to do this (without having to wait 10 minutes for facebook.com to load), they have to make a ton of [ad] network requests, cache data on your browser, etc.

To be honest, I'd put more of the blame on the browser. They should probably be handling all that activity better. Like chromium browsers will freeze background tabs after a certain amount of time/usage.