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Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

10 points by galaxyLogic 3y ago

galaxyLogic 3y ago
Some hard data: " 47 percent of customers expect pages to load in two seconds or less. Beyond 4.2 seconds, conversion rates fall below a single percent"
dredmorbius 3y ago
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136858>
gregjor 3y ago
At some point we stop feeling or expressing outrage at the ongoing lies and hypocrisy. Another day, another proof of "free speech absolutism," another petty and vindictive act by someone who should have better things to do. All we can do is stop using Twitter and continue to deadname it.
s3p 3y ago
Seeing the article use "X" so confidently throughout as if that is the real name of Twitter annoys me. I know it's true, and that the app is now named X, I just hate it. Twitter will be missed.
somat 3y ago
I am having trouble understanding this, that is, it does not match my mental model of how the web works. A link is clicked and your browser goes off and starts fetching the new page. The original page does not have any mechanism to control the new page. Update: Had a bit of think about it. I am stuck in a web 1.0 model. Perhaps the links are not real links but some sort of javascript treachery, The other way to do this would be to send the links through a slow redirection service. so technically not slowing down the load time of the linked page, but realistically the user does not care where the link is slow just that it is.
- Nextgrid 3y ago
  > The other way to do this would be to send the links through a slow redirection service. so technically not slowing down the load time of the linked page, but realistically the user does not care where the link is slow just that it is. That's exactly what happened. Shitter has been for a long time rewriting every link to go through their "t.co" URL shortening service. Seems like that service is now adding random delays to certain domains.

10 points by galaxyLogic 3y ago

Some hard data: " 47 percent of customers expect pages to load in two seconds or less. Beyond 4.2 seconds, conversion rates fall below a single percent"

dredmorbius 3y ago

Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136858>

gregjor 3y ago

At some point we stop feeling or expressing outrage at the ongoing lies and hypocrisy. Another day, another proof of "free speech absolutism," another petty and vindictive act by someone who should have better things to do. All we can do is stop using Twitter and continue to deadname it.

s3p 3y ago

Seeing the article use "X" so confidently throughout as if that is the real name of Twitter annoys me. I know it's true, and that the app is now named X, I just hate it. Twitter will be missed.

somat 3y ago

I am having trouble understanding this, that is, it does not match my mental model of how the web works. A link is clicked and your browser goes off and starts fetching the new page. The original page does not have any mechanism to control the new page. Update: Had a bit of think about it. I am stuck in a web 1.0 model. Perhaps the links are not real links but some sort of javascript treachery, The other way to do this would be to send the links through a slow redirection service. so technically not slowing down the load time of the linked page, but realistically the user does not care where the link is slow just that it is.

Nextgrid 3y ago
> The other way to do this would be to send the links through a slow redirection service. so technically not slowing down the load time of the linked page, but realistically the user does not care where the link is slow just that it is. That's exactly what happened. Shitter has been for a long time rewriting every link to go through their "t.co" URL shortening service. Seems like that service is now adding random delays to certain domains.