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They're not idiots, they just don't give a crap about waste until it affects their bottom line. (Most humans seem to operate on this principle) A lot of the bu
by peterwwillis 8y ago
They're not idiots, they just don't give a crap about waste until it affects their bottom line. (Most humans seem to operate on this principle)
A lot of the business-related bullshit is a response to advertising and sales. But a lot is also lazy tech people slapping pieces together until it does a thing, and they don't care that it loads 100x more data than it needs to, because again, doesn't affect their bottom line.
Traffic costs must be pretty low, or nobody's watching that line on the AWS budget, or the CDN is eating the cost.
- techbio 8y agoIn a world where video over IP exists, market rate traffic expenses have got to be among the least of the concerns of print journalism.
- nrhk 8y agoWhy would they care, they have to do the work of 5 in the time of one because there's now off the shelf solutions for everything. Too bad if those solutions often come bloated and incorrectly configured, maybe they should hire more engineers. Some business prioritize loading speeds but big ones with brand reputation won't care, they have little to lose.
- komali2 8y agoWell then, shall we kick up more of a shit storm about it to give them a little more motivation? If the argument is "nobody will do anything about it because nobody cares," isn't the best response"then start caring!" I'll see if I can find some old articles I used to love about how something called something along the lines of "concerned Christians of America" basically determined what could be on television for ages because they maintained a letter-writing force of a mere five thousand people. Nobody else was kicking up that level of shit storm, so the networks listened to them.
- matheusmoreira 8y ago> they have little to lose. Then let's make them lose. The more widespread bullshit blockers become, the more money they will lose.