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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by bartread on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:08AM (#16085823)
Yeah, I'm certainly on board with that: vast amounts of ad-related assets and tracking code need to become a thing of the past. Still, for that I have uBlock, and I'm increasingly avoiding the worst offenders on that front anyway.

Still, sites I use on a regular basis that benefit from JS: GitHub (most evident with real-time updates to projects, issues, PRs); Office365; GMail, Google Drive, Google Analytics, Google Docs, the Adsense and Webmaster portals, and - of course - YouTube; Clubhouse (project management, heavier than Trello, lighter than JIRA); Azure management portal; pipeline apps such as TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.

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Re:AMD ships microcode update to disable some branch prediction by Nursie on Saturday January 06, 2018 @01:53PM (#16086805)
Yeah, no dispute from me on that count, there are a lot of valid uses.

I am getting sick of what I presume is coin-mining code. I was reading an article about keyboards on some site the other day and after a few seconds my laptop started to sound like an aircraft taking off.

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