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Except a lot of regular pages are just pages and so it is trivial to read them at 20kb size because you obviously run your browser with extensions that block th
by TheRealPomax 6y ago
Except a lot of regular pages are just pages and so it is trivial to read them at 20kb size because you obviously run your browser with extensions that block the loading of the vast majority of resources on the page until you whitelist them. A 4mb PDF is a single 4mb file. A 4mb webpage is more like 100 separate files, most of which can be entirely forbidden from loading at all, and many of which can be set to load only once tapped on (like images).
- codetrotter 6y ago> you obviously run your browser with extensions that block the loading of the vast majority of resources on the page until you whitelist them I think most people do not do this on mobile. Even among the HN crowd. For example, on iPhone that I use, Safari does not support extensions. So for most people on mobile the site will download everything.