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The impending doom that is WASM will mean that 'dynamic' and 'interactive' adverts will use all these cores.

throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
What a miserable hopeless post - "they're going to fuck us and what can we do????". Answer: quite a lot, if you have even minimal technical understanding (like, enough to use a blocklist or an ad blocker). Are you incapable even of that?
- secondcoming 6y ago
  Yes.
  - throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
    Well... upvoted for the honesty.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  Your ad blocker is going to filter a private web socket link funneling ads and content together? It's going to patch the WASM?
  - CyberDildonics 6y ago
    Why would it be difficult to turn off web sockets or turn off multi-threading? Multiple threads already run on single cores all the time, there is no reason a web browser couldn't just put them all on one core.
  - throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
    It's your broswer. If you have any tech chops you can make it what you want. If.
CyberDildonics 6y ago
wasm can only do what javascript can already do, but faster. What specifically do you think wasm will change?
- secondcoming 6y ago
  Threads. There's going to be a lot of 'throw threads at it and hope performance issues go away'-type solutions. https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/14 https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/14
  - johncalvinyoung 6y ago
    As someone working with cutting-edge CAD in the browser, I badly want to throw more threads at problems.
    - secondcoming 6y ago
      And that's fine, and I'd imagine people using your service voluntarily would have no problem with that. It's the ads though, and the calibre of people who create ads...
  - CyberDildonics 6y ago
    To be clear, you are saying you don't want something powerful and fundamental to be added because you don't want to learn how to turn a feature off or learn how install an adblocker? Not only that, but better performance is what pushes you over the edge, not popups, connection slow downs, auto playing videos or tracking?

What a miserable hopeless post - "they're going to fuck us and what can we do????". Answer: quite a lot, if you have even minimal technical understanding (like, enough to use a blocklist or an ad blocker). Are you incapable even of that?

secondcoming 6y ago
Yes.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  Well... upvoted for the honesty.
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Your ad blocker is going to filter a private web socket link funneling ads and content together? It's going to patch the WASM?
- CyberDildonics 6y ago
  Why would it be difficult to turn off web sockets or turn off multi-threading? Multiple threads already run on single cores all the time, there is no reason a web browser couldn't just put them all on one core.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  It's your broswer. If you have any tech chops you can make it what you want. If.

CyberDildonics 6y ago

wasm can only do what javascript can already do, but faster. What specifically do you think wasm will change?

secondcoming 6y ago
Threads. There's going to be a lot of 'throw threads at it and hope performance issues go away'-type solutions. https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/14 https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/14
- johncalvinyoung 6y ago
  As someone working with cutting-edge CAD in the browser, I badly want to throw more threads at problems.
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    And that's fine, and I'd imagine people using your service voluntarily would have no problem with that. It's the ads though, and the calibre of people who create ads...
- CyberDildonics 6y ago
  To be clear, you are saying you don't want something powerful and fundamental to be added because you don't want to learn how to turn a feature off or learn how install an adblocker? Not only that, but better performance is what pushes you over the edge, not popups, connection slow downs, auto playing videos or tracking?