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[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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?

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour 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

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours 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.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 hours 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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago

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