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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why the fuck does BBC sounds have so much tracking???

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, even for your average commercial app, that's an absolutely insane rate. I'm betting it keeps retrying whenever it fails or something

[–] expr@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, honestly that almost looks like straight-up incompetence, like a ton of polling going on.

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