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If you are against user tracking, great, you've got many on your side. But what loads fast is web pages that are made to load fast. If they are able to load fa
by robbrown451 7y ago
If you are against user tracking, great, you've got many on your side.
But what loads fast is web pages that are made to load fast. If they are able to load fast despite user tracking (which is entirely possible), then it is simply a different issue, and this should not be flagging them as slow. If they are flagged, it should be by something different.
If Google is going to implement this (which I support in general because so many sites are painfully slow because there aren't enough incentives to make them fast), what they should be measuring is speed of loading, independent of whether it is slow because of user tracking, slow because the developers do other obnoxious stuff (fill it with click bait images, have videos autoplay, etc), use frameworks sloppily, put too much contents on the page, have a high res background image or video, have a crappy server or use a slow backend language, or whatever it is.
While Google does a lot of user tracking, I think the normal way they do it is actually pretty fast. Fault them for user tracking, but if they are able to allow site owners show Google ads without slowing down the page load significantly, don't lump them in with all these other ones that both track users, as well as make the site a painful user experience.
- taeric 7y agoI don't want to be stonewalling progress. But evidence is that any savings win here will be wasted by the same parties that are bringing the savings. Google lost a ton of good will by making Gmail a laughably bad experience on load.
- mattkevan 7y agoWhen I had to use gmail for work I switched back to the plain html interface. It was startlingly fast As far as I could see all the complicated front-end stuff added zero to the user experience. Ok, so yeah, you needed a page load to view a message or whatever, but it was quick and hardly noticeable. All they needed to do was freshen up the stylesheet and call it a day. But, I guess, all those developers and product managers needed something to do in between building a new messaging app and killing the previous one.
- graphememes 7y agoJust switched over to the HTML view, and wow. I'm never going back.