@njsg @kkarhan @radmin @SuperDicq well, it really depends on the language used when talking about "native", GoLang can be quite heavy due to forced static linking, C/C++ can be unoptimized or overly optimized (i.e. sacrificing binary size for speed) and i'm not sure if dynamically linked libraries (like GUI toolkits like qt/gtk) should be included in the size or not, and Java is Java. 14 billion devices run Java.

Main complain usually is all of the malicious stuff websites including tracking, advertisement, bitcoin miners etc. Besides the malicious impact those contribute heavily to overall website size and performance. In reality it's not that much different from getting software that's loaded with trackers, except now it's not sandboxed (because of course it's not unless you do stuff like sandboxie or flatpak) and has access to your $HOME