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I installed an app. A 3rd party app. To occasionally obtain useful info from that site whose designers are hostile.

New reddit is just harmful to your laptop battery. It fulls one cpu core all the time if you don't block the update websocket. Truly the worst written react app I ever saw.

To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos almost never work first try, their image galleries are essentially unusable... None of these are issues on desktop web (on the same network).