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Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run Facebook?

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This example is a deliberate obfuscation by Facebook to hide the "Sponsored" element from scrapers: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp...

> Our tool recognized ads by searching for that word. Last year, Facebook added invisible letters to the HTML code of the site. So, to a computer, the word registered as “SpSonSsoSredS.”

Wow. Thanks for the link

Perhaps with some tweaking to the chip-set, you could overclock to 5.5Ghz. Another option might be to use Dynix PTX and link 16 x86 machines together as one logical machine to render the ads. Mini-Mainframes could make a come-back. You could also write an application to load balance the DOM's to a bunch of VM's at AWS. Beyond that, I am out of ideas. Anyone else have any ideas to help this person?

yes

Delete his facebook?

But how you going to explain lack of social media to internal border control?

A high-end Nvidia Tesla GPU might be able to make a dent in it

Single browser tabs don't scale up to take advantage of the maximum available hardware on a modern computer (thankfully!). I'm not sure if it's intentional or just some invisible browser optimisation.

Anyhow, Facebook IS extremely inefficient, the tweet just shows an example of it. If anyone wants to see some other messed up stuff, open up a chat window and inspect a chat bubble.

From an i7 MacBook Pro with 16 gigs of ram /safari/ to an 8 core 16 thread Ryzen 2700X with 32 gigs of ram /chrome or ff/, nothing I have can handle having Facebook open for a long enough period without closing and reopening the tab every once in a while.

It's kind of insane.

The mobile apps seem to be the only somewhat performant way to access the service. Or to opt out of any timeline features and just use the chat via messenger.com.

Twitter is kind of similar if you keep scrolling down someones giant media list. It isn't paged so the lower you go the more it will grind to a halt.

I have the ultimate adblocker for facebook.

I deleted my account about 3 years ago.

Once I stopped cycling with a group it had no remaining utility for me so I ditched it.

Family I communicate with via email and it's great.

How about they just provide clean markup and directly mine cryptocurrency on my box instead? At this point, I'd welcome that over slow performance of the actual content and being compelled with ads.

true, meh :-( i`m just using their basic mobile site, https://mbasic.facebook.com/ Main site works on my office pc, intel quad core, lags on bedroom computer (athlon 2) an brings my daily thinkpad x61 to a halt. not a big fan of facebook, but the groups feature is very handy, signed up to a couple of local ones for getting freelance work in my area.

> Pretty soon, it will be faster and more efficient to just send us prerendered bitmaps.

I really want to do some testing in it.

It would be kinda cool for all of Facebook's client-side code to just turn into a pair of <img> and <map> tags.

Almost geocities-esque, and it'll still work great if you don't have Javascript enabled. Adblockers can start integrating OCR and doing image manipulation.

Eventually, you'll just

ssh -X facebook.com

I get it that you hate ads, but having a handful of DOM elements to show a word won't bump CPU usage in a measurable way.

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