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the privacy stuff is fine(if not a bit suspect since we're still relying on the goodwill of the instance hosts to not be sketchy) but for me the biggest benefit
by b00ty4breakfast 1y ago
the privacy stuff is fine(if not a bit suspect since we're still relying on the goodwill of the instance hosts to not be sketchy) but for me the biggest benefit for these third party front-ends is that my crappy laptop isn't constantly being pushed to the limits of it's capabilities just so I can read some gosh-darn text.
And reddit is not even close to the worst offender in that regard. Seriously, when did displaying words on a screen become so resource intensive???
- hexagonwin 1y agohave you tried old reddit?
- IlikeKitties 1y ago[flagged]
- userbinator 1y agoThe no-JS / reduced-JS aspect of some of these frontends is particularly interesting, since it implies that the JS wasn't ever necessary --- except perhaps its only purpose was to be privacy-invasive and user-hostile.
- b00ty4breakfast 1y agoI reckon a very large chunk of the JS on many mainstream websites is explicitly for data collection and advertising.