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The first comment in the 2012 discussion looks a bit funny now: > [...] I am pretty sure that graphing this out and we find the end of the web occurs sometime
by mrighele 8y ago
The first comment in the 2012 discussion looks a bit funny now:
> [...] I am pretty sure that graphing this out and we find the end of the web occurs sometime in 2018 when page designers and their bosses and engineers and marketing pukes have so larded down pages that the net runs out of available bandwidth and any page takes 4:33 to load.
- marcosdumay 8y agoA random newspaper or magazine article takes 2 to 3 minutes to load for me nowadays. Those 4 aren't very far away. Most of the time seems to be waiting for servers to respond, what probably means the bottleneck is on ad-network CPUs. Of course, at the normal web (outside of those "professional communicators" pages) things are much better.
- Yetanfou 8y ago> Most of the time seems to be waiting for servers to respond, what probably means the bottleneck is on ad-network CPUs. A problem easily avoided by never making any requests to those servers in the first place. Block them at the point of ingress to your network (your router at home), on the clients (using /etc/hosts or equivalent) and by using blocking software in your browsers (uBlock et al). No ads, no problems. It will invariably also mean no access to some sites which either detect ad blockers (...which can be defused using ad-blocker detectors, this is a bit of an arms race) or depend on resources from ad servers (rare for now). You can either make exceptions for those sites or just live without them.