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If non-sustainable energy sources are used to power these devices with bloatware, bloat can contribute to [[wikipedia:Climate_change|climate change]]. This is true for any excessive processing (CPU, GPU, etc.) and network abuse (such as [[Artificial_intelligence/training|AI training]]). Hardware bloat can increase [[wikipedia:Electronic_waste|e-waste]].

There's ethical concerns, as well. Bloated software can be prohibitively expensive to use on [[wikipedia:Developing_country|developing countries]], which marginalizes poor people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Luu |first=Dan |title=How web bloat impacts users with slow connections |url=https://danluu.com/web-bloat/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Luu |first=Dan |title=How web bloat impacts users with slow devices |url=https://danluu.com/slow-device/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref> Bloated software and hardware can have such a low performance (or have high instability) that it can't effectively help the user achieve the task that the product was designed for, such as scheduling a session with a therapist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Eric |date=2023-02-01 |title=Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm |url=https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260208052928/https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/ |archive-date=2026-02-08 |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref>

==Tools to deal with bloat==

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*[https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit "The 49MB Web Page"]; a study on popular news/journalism sites. They also talk about cognitive-load and silent automated bidding, criticizing the degraded UX and privacy violations.

*[https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm "Web Obesity Crisis"]

*[https://danluu.com/web-bloat/ How web bloat impacts users with slow connections]

*[https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight HTTP Archive: Page Weight]

*[https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size The Growth of Web Page Size]

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 If non-sustainable energy sources are used to power these devices with bloatware, bloat can contribute to [[wikipedia:Climate_change|climate change]]. This is true for any excessive processing (CPU, GPU, etc.) and network abuse (such as [[Artificial_intelligence/training|AI training]]). Hardware bloat can increase [[wikipedia:Electronic_waste|e-waste]].
+There's ethical concerns, as well. Bloated software can be prohibitively expensive to use on [[wikipedia:Developing_country|developing countries]], which marginalizes poor people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Luu |first=Dan |title=How web bloat impacts users with slow connections |url=https://danluu.com/web-bloat/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Luu |first=Dan |title=How web bloat impacts users with slow devices |url=https://danluu.com/slow-device/ |url-status=live |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref> Bloated software and hardware can have such a low performance (or have high instability) that it can't effectively help the user achieve the task that the product was designed for, such as scheduling a session with a therapist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Eric |date=2023-02-01 |title=Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm |url=https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260208052928/https://ericwbailey.website/published/modern-health-frameworks-performance-and-harm/ |archive-date=2026-02-08 |access-date=2026-03-24}}</ref>
 ==Tools to deal with bloat==
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 *[https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit "The 49MB Web Page"]; a study on popular news/journalism sites. They also talk about cognitive-load and silent automated bidding, criticizing the degraded UX and privacy violations.
 *[https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm "Web Obesity Crisis"]
-*[https://danluu.com/web-bloat/ How web bloat impacts users with slow connections]
 *[https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight HTTP Archive: Page Weight]
 *[https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size The Growth of Web Page Size]