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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 1 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.757s | source
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verall ◴[23 Jun 23 14:36 UTC] No.36447353[source]▶
A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.

Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?

It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.

I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?

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1. MatmaRex ◴[23 Jun 23 16:26 UTC] No.36449089[source]▶
Some of it has to do with changes to browsers’ acceptance of cookies. If you need to set cookies on multiple domains you control (common for SSO), you used to be able to do it by loading a pixel image or tiny script from each domain. Now, however, that’s considered a third-party cookie, and rejected by many browsers. The only reliable way now is to redirect the whole page, and then redirect back.