Osman> When you open a website on your phone, it's like participating in a high-frequency financial trading market. That heat you feel on the back of your phone? The sudden whirring of fans on your laptop? Contributing to that plus battery usage are a combination of these tiny scripts.
> “ Another recent peculiarity of the modern news websites is the truncation of articles halfway through with a "Read More" or "Continue Reading" button. A click event tells the publisher which articles are driving engagement and gives them an opportunity to load more adverts further down the page.”
> Existence of these [lightweight text focused sites] proves that an audience longs for the kind of no-frills content-heavy websites that are often romanticized these days. In an era where so much is happening around your country and the world, and internet being so invasive in our lives, we ought to have better outlets with both business and user needs meeting at a middle ground.
> It is working perfectly for the people who built it this way. The question is whether it is working for you.
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