Skype Is Now Bloatware

AngryFiver

AngryFiver

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Used to be that you could have a Skype session only take up 50k of memory. Now it's at 250k.

I like the new look and all but the fact that it now needs 5x the amount of memory to run is a joke.
 


Mine is using like 150 MB on OS X. Like it's a lot but it's not insane. I use Slack too, and that's taking up more than Skype.

Ram is cheap, get more.
 
23326 constan+ 20 0 1166636 188012 45036 R 33.2 2.4 287:47.40 chromium-b+
24424 constan+ 20 0 1290092 229532 40120 S 9.0 2.9 140:51.06 chromium-b+
9877 constan+ 20 0 1082912 142040 38956 S 5.6 1.8 0:03.90 chromium-b+
1440 constan+ 20 0 1542440 314684 71748 S 4.3 3.9 160:17.63 chromium-b+
1864 constan+ 20 0 2106196 423904 38148 S 4.3 5.3 163:34.19 gnome-shell
10261 constan+ 20 0 745068 267528 24852 S 4.0 3.4 297:15.93 skype

Hmm thought the Linux version would be different. Nope.
 
More pissed at Firefox and their shitty flash plugin to be honest. New i7 with 8gigs shouldn't hang and crash because some newspaper site runs flash ads.
 
That's still better than the fine folks at utorrent building a crypto coin miner into their software. Now when people steal movies, Utorrent will be stealing your bandwidth and electricity.
 
I'm beyond sick of all the shit we need to watch out for in software, hardware, OS's, etc - or settings we need to set in order not to get fucked by a program.

Anyone know of a centralized place on the web where this info is given out? I'm basically looking for some place to warn me of borderline malware, bloatware in shit, spyware, new NSA revelations, security bugs, etc. I know it's a giant subject but just wondering.

Here are some examples of things I learned about through either WF or Google News. This would have been better if some site that specializes in it warned me asap.

- The whole SSL Heartbleed bug debacle (boy that open source is really so much more secure ehh?)
- Lenovo superfish malware - nice enough to be pre-installed on your laptop!
- uTorrent now comes with built in crypto coin miner
- Samsung Smart TVs record your conversations and send to 3rd party servers
- Skype bloatware
- NSA spying revelations

There's tons more , but this is all off the top of my head right now
 
You mean mb, not k. Skype is using up 145mb here. In 2012 it was using 100-120mb idling. More features have been added since then.

I don't understand why anyone would complain about such a thing these days though. Memory is so ridiculously cheap, stick 16gb or more in your machine and don't worry about it. I've got 16gb, have 6 apps and 99 background processes and 27 Windows processes going and am using 25% of my memory. Skype is not degrading my computer's performance so it's a non issue.
 
WickedJoe said:
I'm beyond sick of all the shit we need to watch out for in software, hardware, OS's, etc - or settings we need to set in order not to get fucked by a program.

Anyone know of a centralized place on the web where this info is given out? I'm basically looking for some place to warn me of borderline malware, bloatware in shit, spyware, new NSA revelations, security bugs, etc. I know it's a giant subject but just wondering.

Here are some examples of things I learned about through either WF or Google News. This would have been better if some site that specializes in it warned me asap.

- The whole SSL Heartbleed bug debacle (boy that open source is really so much more secure ehh?)
- Lenovo superfish malware - nice enough to be pre-installed on your laptop!
- uTorrent now comes with built in crypto coin miner
- Samsung Smart TVs record your conversations and send to 3rd party servers
- Skype bloatware
- NSA spying revelations

There's tons more , but this is all off the top of my head right now
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Well, Snowden really pushed it to the spotlight, and from there the security community basically started looking harder, and news media became more interested in privacy and IT security.

There have been many big exploits prior to the snowden leaks though if you follow the computer security news.

rusvik said:
More pissed at Firefox and their shitty flash plugin to be honest. New i7 with 8gigs shouldn't hang and crash because some newspaper site runs flash ads.
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That's adobe for you. And why aren't you running a modified HOST file or adblock plus with anti-adblock killer with greasemonkey - makes a big difference.
 
Anyone know of a centralized place on the web where this info is given out? I'm basically looking for some place to warn me of borderline malware, bloatware in shit, spyware, new NSA revelations, security bugs, etc. I know it's a giant subject but just wondering.
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I use this it had all the stuff you mention and its nice because they link out to the source/whitepaper.

/r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion
 
dmnEPC said:
don't buy one, build one
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No.

WickedJoe said:
Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
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No.



This is all you need right here boys...

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I use to have this problem on my 2003 laptop, I upgraded to a 2013 and this stopped happening.
 
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