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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by mcculley on Saturday June 29, 2024 @06:22AM (#40829179)
Why would the issue be “on iOS”? The renderer has nothing to do with how pages are fetched.
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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by jampekka on Saturday June 29, 2024 @06:37AM (#40829238)
They probably have to write a totally different fetching logic for the Safari wrapper. If Apple wasn't as scummy as they are, they would have used the same logic as in other platforms where this problem doesn't seem to exist.
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Re:How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins by EdwardDiego on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @06:26AM (#40864600)
Because Apple.
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