I have no idea why people even think this is an issue. There is some element of slippery-slope. People say, "So what if your web browser uses 8GB of RAM for si

I have no idea why people even think this is an issue. There is some element of slippery-slope. People say, "So what if your web browser uses 8GB of RAM for six tabs, you've got 16GB!". But I'd argue if every piece of software squandered RAM with such abandon, your machine would quickly choke. It's also got some good shock value, like the one-paragraph web article that overloads your phone & generates 75MB of traffic.