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by ericra 96 days ago
Not only are loading times and total network usage ridiculous, sites will continue to violate your privacy via trackers and waste your CPU even when background idling. I've written about these issues a few times in the last few years, so just sharing for those interested:

A comparison of CPU usage for idling popular webpages: https://ericra.com/writing/site_cpu.html

Regarding tracker domains on the New Yorker site: https://ericra.com/writing/tracker_new_yorker.html

1 comments

This! I need some better browser extensions to just start suspending JavaScript after the pages been in the background for a period of time.

I've tried all of the auto discard type extensions but yeah back on CPU usage is crazy