Mastodawn

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

@zachleat I miss the days when just the HTML was 49MB.

@rem how many MB is the entirety of Wikipedia’s HTML 😅

@zachleat Failing the "would an imagemap be faster?" test in every conceivable way.

@slightlyoff good performance metric in the making 😅

@zachleat @slightlyoff “The reading experience”. 👀

Sure, that's what these sites are optimizing for. 😅

destroyed the reading experience.

Funny, @zachleat, because this page is behind clown flare, which blocks me from accessing it in the first place.

@zachleat is this your local news site @neil ?

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uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, AdGuard AdBlocker

@gregalotl @zachleat or just avoid the whole mess completely. I've gone back to a newspaper in the post.

@gregalotl systemic problems can’t be solved with individual solutions