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by nottorp 819 days ago
> Modern day applications are doing far, far more than they were 10-15 years ago. Much more traffic, much more data, much more tracking (unfortunately), etc.

Yes but are you sure the 'more' is in the user's interest?

I'd say 90% isn't. Out of which maybe half is less development cost because you can throw layers upon layers of bloat upon the user, and half is spyware.

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No but the company isn't trying to develop software that's best for the user. They're trying to develop software that's best for their bottom line.