Lazy loading also allows any network operator (and FVEY et al) to surveil your progress reading any particular web page based on when the additional image requests are generated.
How are they inspecting your network traffic?
I think I kind of hate lazy loading
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#22There used to be a time where you can load up a YouTube video on the site and go offline then watch the video. You can't do that any more, unless you actively find a way to download the said video.
Uh, youtube absolutely has a save for offline viewing option.
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#23> There's no way to disable Lazy Loading on Android Chrome or Android Firefox.
I would think you could effectively disable lazy loading by using a bookmarklet for individual pages, or a userscript in Tampermonkey for whole sites or patterns of sites.
It's not as simple of a solution as a browser option, but I figure solving your problem beats complaining about it.
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#25I live in Germany and so do most of my users, so I take the spotty internet rather seriously. There are lots of holes in the coverage even in the capital. Then there is the underground. However loading the images early wastes bandwidth, and it hurts SEO. In my case the user can live without those images, so it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I hope that descriptive alt tags will help. On the other hand, the whole…
it hurts SEO. In my case the user can live without those images, so it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
This is one of the big problems with the modern web, It puts you in this doom loop: sacrifice the user to please Google to get users.
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#26Eh, mistakenly clicking an ad or irrelevant content when trying to click a link because the page loaded some async content at the last millisecond is far worse.
It is all bad because now all the images are async content too.
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#27If you open an article on a train you could always scroll to the bottom of the page before you start reading it in order to load all the resources.
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#29Lazy loading also allows any network operator (and FVEY et al) to surveil your progress reading any particular web page based on when the additional image requests are generated.
How are they inspecting your network traffic?
They aren't going to see behind the TLS curtain, but they would see (assuming no DNS encryption) a domain name lookup followed by various traffic patterns; either:
Bursts (page loads) with near silence in between, maybe just some non-human-triggered traffic from scripts that poll.
Bursts (page loads) with quite a bit more of a human-triggered cadence in between, if lazy loading during scrolling occurs.
But mouse-tracking analytics probably result in a similar leak, if not better.
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#30The decision here is completely on the hands of the user agent, use a browser that let's you disable lazy loading.