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I guess you don't browse any modern webpages? Otherwise I can't explain your perspective. You basically lose up to 95% of performance in anything remotely resembling a JS heavy web app. So it would run the same as on a cheap Android phone.

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My experience has been the iPhone chip is fast enough to still run pages just fine. Maybe those ones that load 300 adverts and relay out the page 5 times as they load won’t work but they hardly worked before anyway.

Everything that runs with such a major performance decrease will also run fine on a cheap phone. If this is your normal use case that's fine, but it simply means you also didn't need such a powerful Iphone in the first place. It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.

> It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.

Whoah don’t get personal now. I just prefer open source.

You can do so and that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid to buy a crazy expensive GPU and then only run it in a limited way because of some personal preference in an unrelated field.

Send me a webpage that you can’t view in lockdown. I haven’t had a single problem. I guess I’m just not really relevant in your eyes.

it's very rare that they break but there's some popular ones like booking.com

in my experience like maybe <5% of the web break

Breaking is not the issue (at least most of the time), but the performance loss is everywhere.

Turkish Airlines site does not load in Lockdown mode. Users cannot log in at rei.com with Lockdown mode on.

Now is this an unanticipated fault, or is the phone preventing some shady happenings, as that mode is designed to do?

Doesn't disabling lockdown mode for specific websites solve this though? Or do you think this partially defeats the purpose for enabling it in the first place?

i run Vanadium on GraheneOS with javascript JIT off (the default configuration) and it's fine basically everywhere

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