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Why would anyone trust this kind of corporate BS? It baffles me that you even try to take what they say at face value. For me, it's akin to state propaganda in
by lgieron 11y ago
Why would anyone trust this kind of corporate BS? It baffles me that you even try to take what they say at face value.
For me, it's akin to state propaganda in non-democratic countries: everyone knows that whatever authorities say and what the truth is are two different things, so there's little point to even analysing the official message (except maybe for humor factor etc.)
- mda 11y agoWhich part of the sentence is not true?
- stonogo 11y agoNone of it? If they thought my time was valuable, they would not put colored strips at the top of every screen that say "Switch to chrome" or "Switch to GMail" or even after I've switched to Chrome, "Chrome is not your default browser." If they thought my time was valuable, they wouldn't be wasting it with their constant desperate pleas to browse the internet in precisely the way they want. If they really valued my time, they wouldn't throw random context switches into every single one of their web properties for whatever is the product du jour. If they wanted my page to load faster, they would work as hard on making their stupid website addons load fast as they worked on getting everyone on earth to install them. Running local mirrors of ajax.googleapis.com and fonts.googleapis.com, along with hijacking analytics and doubleclick and returning 0-byte files, is the best thing I ever did for my poor parents' satellite internetion connection. Internet users' time (and site loading speeds) are very much second- or third-class items on google's list of things to give a shit about. I'm absolutely not questioning thees decisions; google is an advertising agency and must prioritize this over my convenience! But pretending like they're some kind of altruistic charity working for the common good is disingenuous and slightly offensive. It also creates the problem where some of the more gullible people actually believe google, a huge faceless global company, gives a shit about anyone in particular, which is demonstrably untrue.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoSome Google pages have load times now upwards on ten seconds on Firefox, this is to me, what makes this statement so hilarious.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoI'm sure you are just about to produce a list of these pages.
- stonogo 11y agoGMail is the first website I ever saw that had a 'loading' progress bar.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoGmail has a loading bar because it has a massive storage backend, not because it's sending markup to your browser. Comparable products like HN favorite FastMail also have loading progress bars.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoGoogle+ on Firefox is a great example. If you use Firefox, it'll actually cause Firefox to seize and lock up for several seconds while it loads.
- magicalist 11y agoeh, between Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, SERP hits based on load time, SPDY/HTTP2, WebM, new compression algorithms, etc etc I would say Google has done more than a little to help reduce wait times for web pages.