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The web has become a three-class system: - Creators and tech-savvy people are able to cut out the bloat and enjoy a fast and secure web because they live in ri
by user812 8y ago
The web has become a three-class system:
- Creators and tech-savvy people are able to cut out the bloat and enjoy a fast and secure web because they live in rich countries with good infrastructure
- The average user. Ironically the first group creates the bloated web to extract money from the average user. The average user in rich countries can count on the infrastructure to have at least an acceptable browsing experience.
- People in poor countries like Africa, which need to count on browsers like Opera to compress the web, to make it usable at all. Even with compression techniques everything is still a struggle, because the average size of web pages seems to increase more and more.
- tobr 8y agoI had not expected to have to point this out on HN of all places, but Africa is not a country.
- user812 8y agoEnglish isn't my first language, so I made a translation mistake there.
- posterboy 8y agoIt's 99% countryside, forest and mountains, so it's not all that wrong, is it?
- jamil7 8y agoI know you probably didn't intend it but the first part of this comment comes off a bit elitist with the feigned shock of someone making a mistake on hn.
- dropit_sphere 8y agoOh, give him a break. Country has a non-state meaning of "area" as well.