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on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:44AM
from the free-content-is-paid-for-by-wasting-your-life-on-loading-times dept.
from the free-content-is-paid-for-by-wasting-your-life-on-loading-times dept.
BBC:
Ads are responsible for making webpages slow to a crawl, suggests analysis of the most popular one million websites.
The research by developer Patrick Hulce looked at which chunks of code take longest to load.
About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do, he found.
Not news for most Soylentils, but in case anyone needs to cite the performance hit (to convince PHBs)...
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:03AM (10 children)
I agree with the "no shit". The thing is, you can't tell the common fool with a smart phone anything. You can't even tell the common fool with a desktop about bandwidth, tracking, surveillance. They don't know, don't care, and can't be bothered. All they care about is, "Ohhh, SHINY!"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:05AM (8 children)
This isn't on the users, it's on the web developers and their bosses.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by coolgopher on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:13AM (4 children)
It's on the users for not crying to the high heavens about the bloated shit the web has become if you try to use it without ad- & script blockers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:30AM (1 child)
Maybe they just buy a new system whenever things seem to get slower (or they clog it with worse stuff like BonziBuddy viruses)?
I have a 7.5 year old laptop. If I upgraded to 2019 or 2020 hardware it might load those ads like a champ. For a while.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:35AM
Oh, BonziBuddy brings back memories, lol.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @08:40AM (1 child)
What will they do if Chrome and Firefox block adblocker plugins?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:12PM
Use a fork, such as Palemoon or Basilisk.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:19AM (1 child)
To some extent, it is on the users. There are all manner of browser addons, hosts files, and router configurations that will block the bullshit. If users were to be outraged by what is going on, and just block it all, the web would work a helluva lot better for all of us. The point at which the data mining assholes start losing money, instead of making money, we'll see a lot of it just disappear.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:52AM
FTFY
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:10AM
I can't really make my mind up on this. I think I agree, mostly. I also think it's up to the users to learn a little bit about the methods used to exploit them so that they may avoid being exploited if they choose to. They don't have to become experts. However, like everything else in life, it's worth paying attention enough to learn how you are being manipulated and exploited, by whom, and to resist it. It's probably too much to ask though. Half the time I can't be bothered either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @02:50PM
that's not entirely true. most people that fall under your categories care more about what they are doing is actually working. sites load, pages open, computer doesnt crash and application doesnt fail.
shiny has little to do with it on the desktop -- consider how people got the free upgrade for windows 10 on old hardware, and pcs remain a hard sell to people.
its easy to just lump them into the Other group and wall them off and say bad things about them, though, even if it doesnt do anything to solve the real problem.