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Wow, my network monitor and firewall just went crazy on that page. Does it really need to open more than 190 separate HTTP connections for a simple news article
by svenfaw 11y ago
Wow, my network monitor and firewall just went crazy on that page. Does it really need to open more than 190 separate HTTP connections for a simple news article (many of them to shady domains)? This is downright ridiculous.
Edit: Re-installing an ad blocker to preserve my sanity.
- ww520 11y agoThese news pages have dozens of tracker. All those phone home. Ghostery to the rescue. Block all of them. Edit: I've just turned off Ghostery and AdBlocker. Ghostery reports that page has at least 39 trackers.
- mring33621 11y ago14 billion HTTP connections!
- dang 11y agoWhich of the recent URLs is the best? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alibaba%20singles&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alibaba%20singles&sort=byDate&... (One thing we want to make the HN software do is let users the link related URLs together and identify the best one of a set.)
- svenfaw 11y agoBased on a very quick check, these two fare much better: https://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-crushes-records-brings-143-billion-singles-day/ https://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-crushes-records-brings-14... http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34773940 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34773940
- dang 11y agoThey may be easier to load, but which has the best content? That's always the #1 concern here. We've changed to the BBC url for now. Previously http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/11/us-alibaba-singles-day-idUSKCN0SZ34J20151111#H3OPU2xoksD5hTyq.97 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/11/us-alibaba-singles....