Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads

Comments

• crispbacon99@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the constant over use of DNS pings to track your location because its good data to sell

  source

  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look fuck them but my PC location data has got to be the least juicy datapoint they could possibly ask for. Surprise, it stayed on my desk.

    source
• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Microsoft found something worse than Java

  source

  • libewa@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JavaScript

    source

    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Javascript by itself isn’t an issue. Many applications use javascript without issue

      The problem is chromium

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• wax@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s several distinct web views running simultaneously. I wonder why the memory footprint is not reused across these

  source
• BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  no it doesn’t. i’ve never been served an ad by microsoft’s weather app. btw i use arch

  source