«The 49MB Web Page» is a great summary of all that's wrong with much of the web along explanations of how we ended up there due to commercial ad incentives.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

@gedankenstuecke ten years ago, Maciej Ceglowski made a case that loading these sites with mobile data generated more revenue for the cell phone provider than the publisher
@bookandswordblog @gedankenstuecke It's an absolute shame he went into the transphobe hole. His talks on webpage sizes and data privacy were great.
@sparks @gedankenstuecke is that a twitter thing? He seemed to move to twitter and that is like turning into a snake, it feels satisfying in the moment but it never helps. I don't know what he posts there.