• RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz
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      9 hours ago

      Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P

    • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      Isn’t that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.

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      18 hours ago

      So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

      i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser