And people complained about Flash, as if it was the cause. It was just one of the effects. We moved on, and now it's even worse because now it's one additional

And people complained about Flash, as if it was the cause. It was just one of the effects. We moved on, and now it's even worse because now it's one additional http hit for every resource requested (images, jsons, etc). Things were as bad before with tags and tracking and analytics and whatnot, but at least many of the resources loaded were self-contained in a well compressed SWF file. Hopefully now we're realizing it's not about the technology involved, but what people actually do with it.