$1200 Graphics Card Opens Two Extra Google Chrome Tabs

It's bc it said two, isn't it? If it had been more believable and just said one...

Wait? Normal people are constantly buying an extra stick of ram because their browsers slow down too much.

We may not realize it’s a problem because the tech sphere (and especially the pc gaming sphere) is famous for overbuying. I used to frequent buildapc over on that other site and there are daily posts of people asking if their RTX 3060, 10th gen i5, and 16gb of ram is good enough for basic gaming and getting told no “actually you need at least a 4070, 13th gen i9, and 32gb of ram just to be low end!”

Hell, I used to be a frequent commenter on lowendgaming and would constantly have to butt heads with gamers who believed that a 4060 ti was low end.

It’s an unhealthy mindset that a lot of pc powerusers have that makes it impossible for them to engage reasonably with articles like this because they simply cannot wrap their heads what is actually normal in the world of pc users. /endrant

You're using Firefox without unlock origin?

You need a new video card.

Are you not using an ad blocker?

https://midwest.social/post/11456850

It's a funny article I'd like to share to my friends but there's no way I'm going to send someone into that mess

Try AdGuard. It's an ad blocker for Android (using a local VPN sinkhole). Article is ad-free for me.

As someone who develops web apps for a living...probably all the shitty websites / apps out there.

Product doesn't care about optimizations, they care about speed to market / customer. That means I also have to not care, so all the code is janky AF and full of nice O(n^2) or worse algos and keeping shit tons (hundreds...thousands...tens of thousands...) of full 100+ data point payloads in memory even though the app only needs one tiny field from it. etc. etc.

Also all that telemetry. Yum.

I recently learned my friend works at a company that has telemetry in their web app that screenshots the page and sends back what the user is doing every 3 seconds or something. As well as the current state of the app. It lets developers rewind/replay situations for debugging. But the sheer amount of data captured and sent over the wire blew my mind.

edit: Sorry ELI5...lots of sites are suboptimal in design and hold on to or track a lot more than is actually needed for proper functionality. Couple that with telemetry that either Google or the web app itself wants to gather on everything you do and you're in for a bad time.