RE: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/116228110099701969
Basically, yes:
"If hardware has improved so much over the last 20 years, has the modern framework/ad-tech stack completely negated that progress with abstraction and poorly architected bloat?"
@elasticsoul the amount of data in today's typical news article web page is larger than the download of the full offline installer of the Firefox browser 10 years ago
The actual article content within that monstrous web page is measured in kilobytes
I am an absurdist and even I cannot comprehend this level of absurdity
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