This was the exact motivation that led me to develop my own news feed for a vulnerability dashboard I'm working on. I would wait for my NVD API calls to finish by scrolling tech sites but was always inundated by ads...
PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
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Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#62Thank God for uMatrix. Seriously, I don't know how I lived without that thing. Load times on everything are at least 30% faster.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll probably leave reddit when old.Reddit.com gets the chop
Same, but it sounds like Lemmy still has some issues, and it'll be hard to replace some of the niche subreddits.
This is the problem. There's no good replacement for Reddit right now, and Digg just died again.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#64In Firefox + Unlock Origin: Downloads 5.6MB and then stops loading. Scrolling to the bottom of the page added 3MB of images and then stopped loading.
You mean Ublock, not Unlock, I assume?
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#65To measure network load, open dev tools, uncheck "disable caches" then clear your browser cache then load the page. Screenshot indicates network cache is disabled so the stated number is inflated.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downloading 500 MB in 5 minutes in the background of a random article is really disrespectful to readers on low-end devices or metered data plans (and these two groups are often the same people!). What a waste of ressources.
I've worked with a lot of people at the bottom end of society in the USA. They are given government provided phones they can use so they have access to Google Maps, email, job search apps etc. These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. After that they drop down to 2G speed, but not in a way that will allow anything to actually load. Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste.
I have 4g of data and never go over. I use it for maps, email even hn.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#67To measure network load, open dev tools, uncheck "disable caches" then clear your browser cache then load the page. Screenshot indicates network cache is disabled so the stated number is inflated.
Both are measuring the amount of data transferred, one with hot cache, other is without. The number is not inflated.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downloading 500 MB in 5 minutes in the background of a random article is really disrespectful to readers on low-end devices or metered data plans (and these two groups are often the same people!). What a waste of ressources.
I've worked with a lot of people at the bottom end of society in the USA. They are given government provided phones they can use so they have access to Google Maps, email, job search apps etc. These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. After that they drop down to 2G speed, but not in a way that will allow anything to actually load. Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste.
I rarely go over 3gb in a month. But, I also work from home, and I have stable internet connection from home.
If their data plan is the only way they are able to access the internet then yes this is definitely a problem especially with random websites downloading literal gigabytes of ads.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#69To measure network load, open dev tools, uncheck "disable caches" then clear your browser cache then load the page. Screenshot indicates network cache is disabled so the stated number is inflated.
Both are measuring the amount of data transferred, one with hot cache, other is without. The number is not inflated.
Websites routinely access the same urls over and over in a single page session, especially with aggressive ad refresh. Normally you only incur the first request as load, not the subsequent ones.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked with a lot of people at the bottom end of society in the USA. They are given government provided phones they can use so they have access to Google Maps, email, job search apps etc. These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. After that they drop down to 2G speed, but not in a way that will allow anything to actually load. Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste.
I have 4g of data and never go over. I use it for maps, email even hn.
Do you have a stable internet connection that is not your phone data plan? Many people in the lower economic class don't have that and their 3gb data plan may be the only 3gb they can use for the internet in any given month.