I'm curious, what if you try running Chrome's Task Manager (shift-escape on Windows, idk what you're using). Cause I noticed things like gmail are pretty well behaved and just sit there, whereas Twitter takes up nearly twice as much memory and grabs a bunch of CPU time every 20 seconds. If you're not running an ad-blocker I would expect that any site with heavy ads/tracking is impacting performance.
I work in advertising, so I think using Ublock Origin is hypocritical
I sincerely think that your industry makes the internet way worse than it needs to be.
Twitter back in the day had a web page (m.twitter.com) which worked everywhere, even under Links2 with the graphical UI.
If the reason it's "the user can't be tracked equally without a JS Big Brother behemoth", then they don't understand how cookies can be used for that, or by just parsing the user tweets and preferences.
- Add the "--light" parameter to your desktop shortcut/script/launcher.