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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by arcticbull on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:55AM (#30443167)
I strongly suspect the bulk of this 500MB is DRM frameworks for their in-flight video playback that they can't or don't want to support in-browser. Safari kicks video playback over to the United app each time you select something to watch and it does what appears to be a multi-stage hand-off dance.
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Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app by RussianCow on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:26PM (#30443650)
Ahh, that explains why I can never get it working in Firefox on my Android tablet.
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