Is Facebook's increasingly buggy interface and bandwidth-hogging a direct result of their surveillance, or just sloppy engineering?
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I generally attribute any major website's slowdown to ad serving, which falls under surveillance. But I don't know for sure.
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I'm still on babby's first web dev in terms of nitty-gritty understanding of what causes sites to run smoothly or slowly, but I did notice,-
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that in particular, the usability of pages implicated in heavy consumer surveillance seems to have gone down drastically over time.
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It doesn't surprise me to see Microsoft-bought services slow down, but I recall Google and Facebook spreading due to speed & ease of use.