The 49MB Web Page
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A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
  • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz
    15·
    3 days ago

    Great article, thanks for sharing!

    I was just discussing something along these lines with a friend. Back when dial-up was was king, I went to an info expo where they were displaying broadband. I typed in my email host’s website, and when I pressed enter, the page just clicked in. No vertical loading whatsoever. It was the future!

    Funny to see twenty-odd years later we are stuck in the same throttling ecperience us dial-up users had to experience organically. I really hope a new web is in the brewing. Corpo greed is so fucking cruel.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Funny to see twenty-odd years later we are stuck in the same throttling ecperience us dial-up users had to experience organically.

      Moore’s law. “Every 18 months, the number of transistors on a chip doubles.”

      Gates’ Law. “Every 18 months, the speed of software is cut in half.”

  • sunflower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    3 days ago

    These articles are always a joy, not just because they always load and display nicely. Even if I’m not in the field myself, this one was helpful even to a technical level, diagnosed the larger issue and showcased it well, well worth sharing to many people.

    I only wonder how all this dark design on the web interacts with accessibility.