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Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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Post by romanshrompsky »

gnicholas wrote: post #66

Another question: why does the feed reload when I go 'back' to it? This happens on the website and the app whenever I click into a link and then go back to the feed. It just spontaneously reloads! If I wanted to comment on the link or even just like the post, I can't (unless I remember who posted it, go to their profile, and go to their recent activity, which I almost never have the patience to do). I uninstalled the…

I got in touch with support about this a few years ago. Their answer: "we'll have a look into it." ... That was a few years ago.

Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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Post by scriptkiddy »

rvba wrote: post #198
bcaxis wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nobody measures such metrics: size, bloat, speed... Have you ever looked at the bloat of linkedin web? I've had tabs over 1GB memory use. Most bloated site I've ever used with any kind of regularity. > Not related to Libkedin, but what is the carbon footprint of all electron-based apps that take hundreds of megabytes and gigantic amount of processor time? I make an election app. It uses 70-80 mb of RAM when running…

I actually was looking recently at memory (and processor) usage of my browsers. I often have multiple tabs open since I revisit some sites. Biggest culprits of memory bloat seem to be discord, linkedin and a specialist page that shows some maps. Gmail (!) feels incredibly bloated now as well - it has random jumps in processor usage, especially when loading. At the same time: firefox simply is uncompatibile with youtu…

My experience with FireFox and YouTube has very much not been this. YouTube works perfectly for me on FireFox. I would check your config/addons and see if there is some setting that is causing errors on YouTube.

Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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Post by pcl »

gruez wrote: post #178
pcl wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope — happens when I’m logged into my Google account even. I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be governed by any privacy-concerning cookies.

> I’m sure I decline whatever cookie notifications they throw at me (except when some dark patten tricks me), Okay I retested with a EU VPN and I can confirm it's due to you declining the cookies. If you decline cookies and change currencies, it adds your desired currency to the url as a query parameter, so if you navigate to flights.google.com again you lose it. >but in any case, that sort of behavior shouldn’t be g…

Bundling basic app functionality with do-not-track prefs is user-hostile.

And, as I said, I’m logged in when this happens, proving that it is intentionally user-hostile, since they actually have the tracking data they need on the backend but are too lazy or organizationally incompetent to assemble it.

Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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Post by ksec »

danpalmer wrote: post #103
oferzelig wrote: post #87

The short business answer is that it's currently not a metric that influences people's decision to install or uninstall an app. If it were one, we would've seen an engineering effort to reduce bloatware and duplications as seen in the post.

On the contrary, lack of storage is a huge limitation on installations. This may not be worth optimising 50MB to 30MB, but optimising 500MB to 300MB would be very impactful to installation rate. People love taking photos on their phones, they love big games, and Apple are notoriously stingy with storage space and iCloud storage to ship off device. It is a very significant portion of the population who are borderline…

I have ~30 of either Banks or Payments Apps and Social Media Apps. Every single one of them are 500MB+ in size. That is 15GB of Apps. My HSBC Apps is 800MBs and I dont have a fucking idea why. And then there are Gmail, Google, Outlook all 300MB+.

To me it is just disgusting.

Re: Why is the LinkedIn app almost half a gig?

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Post by ksec »

dangus wrote: post #145

One of these lovely discussions again. I’m firmly on the devil’s advocate side here: some install bloat isn’t a big deal. 1. Believe it or not the LinkedIn app is huge in terms of the amount of things it does. It’s basically a super-app for professionals. News, social interactions, an entire chat app, a job board, recruiting and sales tools, etc. Of course it relies on a lot of frameworks. 2. You don’t need a “high e…

The exact same App on android weight only a third of the size.
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