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At $35 per gigabyte, visiting a badly written website could cost $0.5 just for opening a home page. And it's not like people don't have FOSS tools to optimize
by megous 6y ago
At $35 per gigabyte, visiting a badly written website could cost $0.5 just for opening a home page.
And it's not like people don't have FOSS tools to optimize images, or read for free on how to make browser load smaller or different format (like webp) of images on smaller screen devices.
Often times developers just don't care because it doesn't cost them anything.
So disabling all images in the browser is a must if one doesn't want to pay for grabage stock photos, and experience suffers on all websites as a result. I don't really consider sending all browsing data to Google by using their image optimization proxy as an alternative.
- nicbou 6y agoCaring, however, does have a cost. Not every website owner knows how to create lean, efficient websites.
- aembleton 6y agoOr you could limit the size of media elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
- megous 6y agoThat probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right? Or will it also terminate requests that simply keep loading past the 50kiB or whatever mark? Anyway, looks like a reason to use Firefox on mobile. :)
- aembleton 6y ago> That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right? Correct: "If the media elements do not have Content-Length header present, then this switch will fail to block the said media elements by size." Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...