> but they are wasting the users' bandwidth as well. If the page was kept open for some time on e.g. a metered connection, this could cause some annoying surpri

> but they are wasting the users' bandwidth as well. If the page was kept open for some time on e.g. a metered connection, this could cause some annoying surprises. Over a 5 minute window we're talking 68KiB before compression. The article made the (poor imo) decision to omit compression, claiming it will affect all endpoints. But of course it won't affect all endpoints equally, since the payloads themselves are not equal. But let's go with this 68KiB for now as the worst case. That means if you left this open for a solid 2 hours it'd consume a grand total of less than 1.7MiB. Even on a metered connection it'd be damn hard to single this out as anything but a rounding error.