> It’s not worth it to try and go behind their backs—premature optimizations like client-side navigation are hard to build, don’t work very well, will probably be obsolete in a couple years, and make life worse for a decent portion of your users.

I don't know what is wrong with me -- when I read this sentence all my brain can see is "job security."

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My take on client side navigation is the desire to cater to smartphone users instead of desktop users. Every few days it seems a popular website does a redesign that is centered around smartphones. They're increasingly bloated and wasteful. Why Twitter, why???