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chromas
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 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.