Post #2069388
2026-01-23 22:19 UTC
@reiddragon @kevin
Your fast connection allows them to download all the information to track you and fingerprint your browser quicker. While it pretends to be loading.
Replies (2)
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@reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden 2026-01-23 22:21
@SuperMoosie @kevin I'm pretty sure those load and start running before the placeholders begin downloading
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@njsg@mementomori.social 2026-01-24 02:07
@SuperMoosie @reiddragon @kevin It's amazing how this has reached insane proportions, it's not just that too many things are dynamic with no necessity, or that the dynamic parts sometimes rely on non-widely supported JS features, but also how much data it's now seen as acceptable to transfer... Remember itsfoss.com blaming Mastodon blurbs for high load while they were serving some 100 MiB uncompressed / 30 MiB compressed to display the article complaining about that? https://social.sdf.org/@njsg/113798138154140470