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Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads (www.gadgetreview.com)

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you telling me that an Apple weather app still slurps >300MB?

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

How else do you expect to find out the incorrect weather?

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Actually, all that is for the tracking cookies. The actual weather data is never stored. This is how they support such advanced levels of inaccuracy.

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