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On a side note, on Firefox Android the page here freezes for about 10 or 15 seconds while loading. It's really annoying.

bhhaskin 6y ago
Interesting. I wonder what the hang up is.
- battery_cowboy 6y ago
  Seems it's every medium site for me, so probably my adblocker or something.
vmception 6y ago
Product managers are seeing "longer time on site" in their analytics reports and keep adding more things thinking it is meeting the company's quarterly OKR they don't know the "higher engagement" is because the mobile user's browsers are literally frozen and the A/B test says "keep going with the B test!" "do it again!" in a tree that keeps evolving down one side of the graph towards more and more obnoxious experiences that the company doesn't even know is obnoxious given the misaligned incentives I think this is also an area California can regulate or threaten to regulate, I don't like "tech regulation" but I can't think of any other party to curb the behavior. If you like "private sector solutions" more than "government solutions" then Apple and Google can pull the rug under all the other company's feet by crashing sites on the user's phone using other user's crowd sourced data, or making certain analytics packages not run, etc.
- creato 6y ago
  ... or maybe it's just a bug?
  - vmception 6y ago
    yes the bug of product managers following A/B tests blindly and not knowing its a bug, resulting in a worse and worse internet browsing experience for all of us
- cameronbrown 6y ago
  Any company with the ability to measure time-on-site is also at least opening their site.
  - kevingadd 6y ago
    Yeah, but probably with a specific browser/os configuration, on high speed office internet. Pretty common to find large websites that just happen to not work right in browser configurations that don't match their developer configuration even if they aren't obscure.
- leshokunin 6y ago
  Underrated comment. You’re on the money.
the_pwner224 6y ago
Working fine for me on Android 68.7.0esr with uBlock Origin. The website isn't exactly quick to load, but that appears to be because it is very large.

bhhaskin 6y ago

Interesting. I wonder what the hang up is.

battery_cowboy 6y ago
Seems it's every medium site for me, so probably my adblocker or something.

vmception 6y ago

Product managers are seeing "longer time on site" in their analytics reports and keep adding more things thinking it is meeting the company's quarterly OKR they don't know the "higher engagement" is because the mobile user's browsers are literally frozen and the A/B test says "keep going with the B test!" "do it again!" in a tree that keeps evolving down one side of the graph towards more and more obnoxious experiences that the company doesn't even know is obnoxious given the misaligned incentives I think this is also an area California can regulate or threaten to regulate, I don't like "tech regulation" but I can't think of any other party to curb the behavior. If you like "private sector solutions" more than "government solutions" then Apple and Google can pull the rug under all the other company's feet by crashing sites on the user's phone using other user's crowd sourced data, or making certain analytics packages not run, etc.

creato 6y ago
... or maybe it's just a bug?
- vmception 6y ago
  yes the bug of product managers following A/B tests blindly and not knowing its a bug, resulting in a worse and worse internet browsing experience for all of us
cameronbrown 6y ago
Any company with the ability to measure time-on-site is also at least opening their site.
- kevingadd 6y ago
  Yeah, but probably with a specific browser/os configuration, on high speed office internet. Pretty common to find large websites that just happen to not work right in browser configurations that don't match their developer configuration even if they aren't obscure.
leshokunin 6y ago
Underrated comment. You’re on the money.

the_pwner224 6y ago

Working fine for me on Android 68.7.0esr with uBlock Origin. The website isn't exactly quick to load, but that appears to be because it is very large.