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I guess a few drops in the ocean are still drops overall, but nuking the link tags for favicons feels like hoping that wiping the dew off a dinosaur's brow will change the reading on the scale, when the dinosaur's bulk is mostly JavaScript.

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Great analogy. I get, perhaps unreasonably, irked by these types of micro optimizations that have no impact on anything. Every webpage in the world could remove everything from the header, and there wouldn't even the tiniest percentage of a percentage of a percentage impact on the world's energy usage.

I know it’s cynical but it feels like people make these statements so they can feel like they are making some difference, while in actuality all they are doing is signaling their political belief system. Not a fan.

What's wrong with signalling one's political beliefs?

I don’t think it’s inherently wrong, I think in this case it feels like they are making a questionable claim to do so.

I wonder if the virtue signaling will actually do more damage to the environment as people read the fairly useless pose and comment on the inconsequentiality?

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