TBH I don't care that much about size bloat. Yes, some networks are faster/slower. Images can be rendered later, for most articles I don't even care about them.

TBH I don't care that much about size bloat. Yes, some networks are faster/slower. Images can be rendered later, for most articles I don't even care about them. What really annoys me is the useless, endless amounts of javascript crap that are required to render the essential parts, often even the body copy, of websites on the client. I regularly just close many articles now because they keep jumping around in the browser for minutes while some scripts are loading and transforming the website, some idiotic mailing list overlays appear etc etc. This is not bloat, it's cancer.