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		tosser350 on Sept 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text-only CNN No value to the user, but all that bloat allows for analytics and tracking for more ad $ and the images make emotional manipulation easier to get more clicks. Not to mention that 99.9% of people don't care or don't even know what bandwidth, CPU, or RAM are.

MicroBerto on Sept 10, 2017 [–]

> 99.9% of people don't care or don't even know what bandwidth

...but they sure know what data rates are. Not that a website is the root of their data problems of course

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