Legal and moral issues aside: - Devices will become really slow as the operation will try to hog memory and computational power. This will affect the website's

Legal and moral issues aside: - Devices will become really slow as the operation will try to hog memory and computational power. This will affect the website's responsiveness. Written badly, it can crash the browser. - The browser app will start to consume more resources, forcing other apps in the devices to be killed by the LMK. This makes the overall device experience a hassle as moving from app to app will load them from disk rather than from cached memory. - Additionally, it will consume more power. This is not a big deal for desktops and plugged laptops. But for mobile devices, this is a big deal.