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I feel like the author is stuck in the 2000's where JS should indeed only support the browsing experience. But we're in 2024 we're JS has reached almost the sam
by 7bit 3y ago
I feel like the author is stuck in the 2000's where JS should indeed only support the browsing experience. But we're in 2024 we're JS has reached almost the same level of support in every major browser.
Many of the arguments are just plain stupid. The JS hasn't loaded yet? So what about images? If your HTML document loads, your JS will too. If you're unsure about that, don't load from sources you don't control.
And if a MITM injects code into your JS, then they inject that into your HTML as well...
- Dalewyn 3y ago>The JS hasn't loaded yet? My dad is an avid reader of news articles on his iPhone. That's mostly text with some photos here and there, ostensibly anyway. Whenever I happen to see how much traffic he downloads over the better part of a working day, somehow he racks up almost if not over a gigabyte. And that's with iOS set to data saving mode. 1GB. For what should be mostly textual and static image content. What the sincere fuck? The only reason people need phone data plans with sky high data speeds and caps, aside from streaming, is because malvertisements and JavaShit waste away most of it. This is fucking cancer.
- echoangle 3y agoThere’s no way even 10% of this is due to JS. It’s probably mostly images and videos which make up this data usage.
- matt-p 3y agoExactly. Even of the part that is JavaScript it's mostly going to be tracking and ads. GA, segment and so on. Use of react and fetch is not unreasonable in 2024 folks.