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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Great showcase on how much data your browser is unnecessarily bleeding to every website out there that wants it.

Genuine, non-rhetorical questions: does anyone know why the hell your browser needs to tell the site

  • where your pointer is, instead of telling it which elements you clicked and calling a day?
  • if the window is active/inactive?
  • the relative position of the window in your screen, instead of just its approximate size?
[–] Wander@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Hover effects, you often want to respond to the user hoving their mouse somewhere, for instance showing a tooltip.
  2. Battery/network saving, a site can pause animations or reduce update requests when the window is inactive.
  3. I cant really think of a good use for this one these days, it was something browsers had in the 90s (not just readonly, websites could move your browser window where they wanted for a while). Maybe its kept for backwards compatibility.
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That explains it. Thank you and @iamkindasomeone@feddit.de for the replies!

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