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by nottorp 1312 days ago
> If they're 100 pages which ought to be simple but actually have tens of megabytes of complex javascript with memory leaks, you can blame the pages you have loaded.

... but every opinion piece that would fit in 1.5 kb of plain text loads 250 Mb of javascript ...

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Yeah, which means the right answer is probably to blame web pages for being bloated, maybe with a little bit of blame for the web technologies for allowing pages to be so bloated.