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Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"??? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by Ascend910@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 4 days ago (3 children)

but it was trash at loading html websites

as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 24 points 4 days ago

Bro's from the timeline where Flash became the dominant species.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It was full of ActiveX controls and Silverlight.

shudders

[–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

there are many more type of websites, other than html

[–] watty@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you give an example?

[+] kekmacska@lemmy.zip -9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

PHP: Facebook, Dream Market, Silk Road(darkweb)

Ruby on Rails: Github, Airbnb

Django: Bitbucket

These technologies can compile into websites in themselves, but they are usually used as backend

[–] watty@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Except that all of those produce HTML. They are all HTML websites.

PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" because it is a Preprocessor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

If we are talking about browser performance, none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all and are therefore irrelevant to Firefox's performance compared to another browser.

From a browser's perspective, every website is HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

[–] example@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all

sounds like you haven't met webassembly yet :D

please don't take this as a recommendation to use that, but it does exist.