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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by commandlinefan on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:10AM (#21369775)
> If it’s an article I simply leave

And many times that choice is made for you: there’s a link to a Vulture.com post on HN right now (about Disney archiving the Fox catalogue) and every time I try to read it, Chrome crashes trying to keep up with the volumes of JavaScript they add, ostensibly to keep advertisers happy.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by acdha on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:39PM (#21371172)
Are you running Chrome on an old phone, or perhaps with some extension which injects a lot of code? Looking at the page, it's certainly showing why ad blockers are popular but it doesn't crash or use unusual amounts of memory on either desktop or mobile Chrome:

https://webpagetest.org/result/191027_BF_57a6cd57fc6fe629628...

https://webpagetest.org/result/191027_2G_fba74afe0c488b99e53...

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