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Comment by RunSet

20 hours ago

> Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of late? Simple pages with just text on it that take gigabytes (AWS), or pages that look simple but it takes your browser everything it has to render it at what looks like 22 fps?

It is to do with websites essentially baking in their own browser written in javascript to track as much user behavior as possible.

Spot on. It's why I quit adtech in 2015. Running realtime auctions server-side is one thing, but building what basically amounts to live-feed screen capture ..

  • I do live-feed screen capture and it doesn't really consume much and is barely unnoticeable. Running 100 live-feed screen capture is a different story though.