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Indeed. Why should I have to load a ten megabyte web page to access 500 bytes of text information?
by Causality1 6y ago
Indeed. Why should I have to load a ten megabyte web page to access 500 bytes of text information?
- squiggy22 6y agoI think a more fitting question is why should google showcase the ten megabyte page so far up the results. Perhaps because those ads that cause the bloat are likely served by them.
- 9dev 6y agoBecause that 500 bytes of text have cost the publisher quite a lot to be written, and the other ten megabytes of ads and tracking code account for that. I hate advertisments as much as the next guy, but it's a little astonishing to me how people expect journalism to be free. Papers have to monetize their content somehow, otherwise they'd be unable to provide it.
- jtbayly 6y agoSo nationalize it! Isn’t that the HN solution to everything? ;)
- squiggleblaz 6y agoYou jest, but doesn't just about every country have a government-owned/government-funded news producing organisation? The ABC, the BBC, the CBC, the ARD, PBS etc. etc.
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- mensetmanusman 6y agoMany times that text was written by a random commenter though, and commenters are almost never paid.
- leobabauta 6y agoThese publishers pay very little for the content to be written. Vast majority these days is written by a low paid writer just out of college, not even a living wage. Real journalists have been let go. Newsrooms are mostly a depressing place to work these days, compared to 20 years ago.