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If you throw me into a vicious cycle of forcing me to allow more stuff at each cycle, I go away, especially on retail sites. Avoiding dependencies to captu
by al2o3cr 9y ago
If you throw me into a vicious cycle of forcing me to allow
more stuff at each cycle, I go away, especially on retail sites.
Avoiding dependencies to capture the 0.01% long-tail of users that heavily block JS seems like a massive waste of time for anybody but the most specialized of retailers - especially since those abandoned visits aren't going to show up in anybody's analytics...
- gkya 9y agoPeople are learning more and more about ad blockers and javascript blockers. The illusion that "you should trade every CPU cycle on your thing for little benefit and amusement" is going to go away, hopefully. The bullshit of front-end dev is pushing the limits of physics these days. Just like CPUs settled around a certain speed and we're witnessing the end of Moore's law, the same will happen with download speeds and bandwidth.
- chopin 9y agoMaybe. But I am trying to convince everyone around me to it. As I am the most reputable person (in that regard) around this usually convinces people. And that compromised machines will be wiped vigorously. I assume that most people around here are pretty good multipliers.