• @[email protected]
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    adding to this, some sites set the difficulty way higher then others, nerdvpn’s invidious and redlib instances take about 5 seconds and some ~20k hashes, while privacyredirect’s inatances are almost instant with less then 50 hashes each time

    • RepleteLocum
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      83 days ago

      So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

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        113 days ago

        So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

        i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser

      • @[email protected]
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        52 days ago

        Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P

      • JackbyDev
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        83 days ago

        Well, it’s the scrapers that are causing the problem.

      • Random Dent
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        53 days ago

        Isn’t that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.