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Maybe the bootleg page could be a source of inspiration? It has a garbage/content ratio of 32 (the browser downloads 32 bytes for every byte of content) while
by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Maybe the bootleg page could be a source of inspiration?
It has a garbage/content ratio of 32 (the browser downloads 32 bytes for every byte of content) while the original page has a 400 ratio (the browser downloads 400 bytes for every byte of content). It's borderline denial of service attack against the visitor.
The original also has a slow aggressive cookie box that is unnecessary as visitors can be spied on using server logs, no need to have cookies for the spy infrastructure. The bootleg has no cookie box (though does set a couple of gratuitous cookies, and does load one gratuitous googleanalytics.js, so maybe it does the right thing in a non-compliant way).
Maybe all these factor make the original page look "less good" to google quality ranking? (which would be ironic given Google's general leadership of the Orgy of Waste school of web design.) Also if google starts ranking such pages up they may expose themselves to class action lawsuits as users could ask for a refund for the power, hardware and telecom bills incurred in being lead to load them?
- gregw134 4y agoPlus, the original has an excessive amount of ads. I'm not surprised Google is ranking the other page higher.
- feanaro 4y ago> Also if google starts ranking such pages up they may expose themselves to class action lawsuits as users could ask for a refund for the power, hardware and telecom bills incurred in being lead to load them? Sorry, but this is completely insane. Search engines should most certainly and definitely not ever be liable for linking to original sources for such a stupid reason. This American pro-litigious attitude has to stop.
- meltedcapacitor 4y agoSure, it's tongue in cheek, but there is a tragedy of the commons in there: whatever massive waste devs and their employers inflict on society goes unpunished because there is no incentive to change that behaviour. Was suggesting some activist subvert computer misuse laws to fix this. Primary legislation or big tech using its weight would do as well. In the physical world one can't dump a rusty aircraft carrier on someone else's lawn and get away with it. Should be the same in tech.
- feanaro 4y ago> In the physical world one can't dump a rusty aircraft carrier on someone else's lawn and get away with it. Should be the same in tech. Google's search results are most definitely not your lawn, nor are heavy websites very much alike to rusty aircraft carriers. Or however this analogy is supposed to work anyway.
- foota 4y agoAmericans aren't the ones forcing crazy things on internet companies these days.
- piva00 4y agoNo, they are the ones allowing companies become such behemoths that other sovereign governments have to step in and rule over to keep some kind of data privacy for their citizens.
- jiggywiggy 4y agoTo be fair, even though littered with ads the bootleg is indeed more pleasant. Bootleg the bootlegger.
- dash2 4y agoI count one advert on the original, and the page loaded instantly for me on my 10 year old laptop. What am I missing?
- naijaboiler 4y agoI agree. The bootlegged version is more inviting to read.
- hrdwdmrbl 4y ago> Orgy of Waste school of web design What is this referring to?
- cerved 4y agoCrappy angular apps
- beastman82 4y agoYou had a great argument until the last sentence