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Its depressing. When the hell did it become normal to suck down 3mb of javascript and poke an API just to display some otherwise static text on a webpage.

• abritinthebay 10y ago
  When Ads became a thing. Most of that 3mb is 3rd party ad scripts and analytics trackers. Basically - when it became obvious that people wouldn't pay for content and companies had to monitize the users. It's lame, but.. well... suggestions?
  • stryk 10y ago
    Make content that is worth paying for
    • voltagex_ 10y ago
      Give me a way to pay for arbitrary content in a browser that works everywhere.
    • abritinthebay 10y ago
      Even when publishers do people don't want to pay for it. This has happened time and time again. Also because paying for content is ugly, hard, and not easy online. Subscriptions are clunky and micropayments have never taken off.