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1. Rich Holman Bluesky 5 min later

   If I click on this is it 48MB? 😂

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 17 min later

      265.06 kB transferred in my devtools, fwiw

      1. Rich Holman Bluesky 19 min later

         Nice.

2. rem Mastodon 12 min later

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

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 19 min later

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

3. Paul Melero Bluesky 4 hr later

   Great article. Depicts our struggles perfectly.

   I created safe-reader.graficos.net to help cope with these dark patterns fatigue but then, I'm forced to avoid processing large pages like The Guardian to keep the server side volume low, since it's a pet project.

4. Jens Oliver Meiert Bluesky 8 hr later

   “The Economics of Hostile Architecture” 🫠

5. Alex Russell Mastodon 11 hr later

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

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

      @slightlyoff good performance metric in the making 😅

      1. Khalid ⚡ Mastodon 18 hr later

         @zachleat @slightlyoff “The reading experience”. 👀

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

6. meek cynics Mastodon 11 hr later

   destroyed the reading experience.

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

7. jtonline Mastodon 11 hr later

   @zachleat is this your local news site @neil ?

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