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Delete your linkedin, facebook, and insta. That is the absolute bare minimum you have to do in order to have any semblance of privacy left.

Linkedin used to be great before it became yet another monetized news feed. Everything is converging to the same crap.

Guess who is still considered vital and fighting over every procedure and claim? Medical billers, insurance companies, health companies, the many, many financial and legal people every hospital is employing.

Every cog in that machine is still spinning along, wasting massive amounts of time and resources. ER docs are still on the phone fighting insurance companies, while treating covid patients, right now, today. This is reality.

If you complain about any of this you will be fired by the hospital you work for.

We already shut down our entire civilization so that the healthcare status quo could be maintained and bills can keep getting sent to the correct address. How on earth is that pragmatic?

We could open up massive free clinics in every city tomorrow morning. Nothing is stopping us.

It's so strange that they brag about Kafka as their big tech achievement, the "relevant news feed" is what killed linkedin for me and many other people.

Good luck moving the infrastructure for all those nonsense clickbait articles to azure. You won't have me as a product no matter where those servers sit.

Does it honestly surprise you that much that Google is doing this? Have you been completely offline for the past 10 years?

The thing that is so frustrating to me about stories like this is that I don't know who to get angry at or complain about at parties. Google has become so massive it's clear that nobody is even aware of or in control of many of their activities, it's just a massive ball of opaque mud.

It is not faster, ever. It is always snappier to render everything server side and avoid as much JS as possible. If you can consolidate the whole page down to a half dozen total HTTP requests or less that's ideal.

The narrow case where you make an XHR call to just reload a small slug of data instead of the whole page effectively does not exist in the real world. I mean I'm sure a few developers have implemented that exact pattern a few times, I think I remember even doing it myself probably? But it's not something that actually happens.

What's actually happening instead is people are just adding more and more intricate tracking and analytics to all these SPAs. The XHR call to reload a blurb of text kicks off three other XHR calls to register the event with the various analytics/advertising tracking partners. Oh and we're adding a new ad partner next week so make sure you refactor all the AJAX to register event handlers for all these new interactions. And can we add mouse position tracking too?

I'm starting to see some pages break into the tens of megabytes of JS scattered across hundreds of files, nobody is paying any attention to what's fast.

I'm not sure how you fix this, I've largely given up on the web. It's just a thoroughly terrible experience from top to bottom, and effectively unusable if you're a layperson.