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FoxtrotDeltaTango@FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works

Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads

www.gadgetreview.com/microsofts-weather-app-eats-more-ram-than-most-browsers-and-serves-you-ads

Gadget ReviewMicrosoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You AdsWindows 11 Weather app consumes up to 1.6GB of RAM and displays third-party ads — roughly five times heavier than macOS's equivalent.

SomeoneSomewhere@SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz

Replying to @⁨FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works⁩

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

crank0271@crank0271@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz⁩

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

⁨Aug⁩ ⁨11⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨03:31⁩en

Billegh@bhamlin@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨crank0271@lemmy.world⁩

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.