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Well said, but embedded developers already know this and behave as if their compute resources are scarce. I read the author as speaking to developers generally, which I think was his intent.

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If web developers would be so kind as to consider my compute resources as scarce that would tremendously please me. This sort of thinking is important, you just need to be selective about when and where you apply it.

Since browser vendors like telemetry, there could be an optional plugin to monitor website consumption of endpoint resources, similar to weather sensors that submit to a central public database. Measure and track the consumption of the top 100 JS scripts globally, to motivate improvement.

I want this as a paid service. For example, hey there person using chrome, install this extension and let random people run tests on their website, for the time and resources used you will be paid n, ok?

Then imagine having access to real computers on real networks hit your site over whatever time horizon you want. It would be great. If this could somehow be done on mobile that would be great too (maybe in a push notification way "1x test ready to run, click here to start", app opens, does it's thing, then closes)

For that matter, app stores could profile apps. Apple already has an on-device list of apps which consume the most battery. They could normalize the metrics to account for variables like display time and network traffic.

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