Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
by fbdab103 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:30PM
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For the performance boost it could offer the unsavy user stuck on a HDD, it was probably worth it to many. Gross to be the middleman, but it is what it is.
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
by genewitch on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:31AM
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Another computer shop i worked in charged $90 for virus removal, but we also eventually made it policy to just reformat/reimage the drive and remove all the crap and fully update the OS. Prior to that the policy was "remove viruses, remove crapware, update OS", but we had a few customers that had machines with 30,000 viruses. I forget what the record was, but it was way up there in count. Trying to clean those machines had a marginal failure rate, enough that it was costing the owner money to have us repeatedly clean them without payment.
No one wants to tell a customer that they need to find better adult content sites, and that we won't be cleaning their machines without payment anymore!
Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
by lukan on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:15AM
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"just reformat/reimage the drive and remove all the crap"
And that is not more work?
It was usually the way I did it, too. But this requires checking with the owner what apps are important, saved preferences, where are the important files stored (they never know) etc.