So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?
So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?
i mean, kinda?
you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser
So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?
Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P
Isn’t that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.
i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser
Well, it’s the scrapers that are causing the problem.