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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

by 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.