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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by jamil7 on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:57AM (#39742017)
> If the market valued performance more then we would probably see competitive services which optimize for performance, but we generally don't.

I believe there is some nuance to this due to the winner-takes-all nature of modern software services. There simply isn't a lot of choice for users or switching is expensive so companies don't do it and employees are forced to suffer through horrible performance.

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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by BehindBlueEyes on Monday March 18, 2024 @11:41AM (#39746044)
Or switching happens for 90% of the feature and is called good enough, which results in now having 2 systems to maintain because the old deprecated one actually still has critical edge cases depending on it…
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