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My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

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I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video.

Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.

yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site)

And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!

The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!

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