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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

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Post by NullPrefix »

tormeh wrote: post #91
Aurornis wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste. If someone needs a phone like this for email and job searching and has no other option, 2G speeds will work. It’s not e-waste for the intended purpose. It would be great if they got higher days caps, though, because let’s be realistic in acknowledging that they’re not only going to use it for Google Maps, email, and job search apps.

Email and chat apps will work, but everything else will slow to a crawl at best and time out at worst.

by email you mean pop3, imap and smtp or the heavy html web client?

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by troad »

acheron wrote: post #92
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #32

The person who wrote the article and the people in charge of the site are different.

The writer chose to write for PC Gamer and sign their name publicly to an article on the site. You don’t get to just say “oh, wasn’t my decision, tee hee” when it’s your name on the article.

Yeah, let's try not to make a habit of punishing people making subsistence wages for the sins of the corporate elite.

If you're making half a mil designing spyware for Palantir, different story.

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

mnkyprskbd wrote: post #78

At this point, if you browse the internet without an adblock; it is on YOU.

Not on mobile

I used to use NextDNS a lot but some things would get messed up so I'd have to sometimes disable it and then I got lazy and just have kept it off for like a year

On Android is there a better solution when using Chrome?

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by [deleted] »

qingcharles wrote: post #60
timpera wrote: post #57

Earlier 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.

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Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by CarVac »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #143
mnkyprskbd wrote: post #78

At this point, if you browse the internet without an adblock; it is on YOU.

Not on mobile I used to use NextDNS a lot but some things would get messed up so I'd have to sometimes disable it and then I got lazy and just have kept it off for like a year On Android is there a better solution when using Chrome?

Not using Chrome. Mobile Firefox has adblocking on Android.

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by __natty__ »

It's not just "PC Gamer" but people making decisions behind as always. Three first people from their "Meet the Team" page [0]: Tim Clark — Brand Director (@timothydclark), Evan Lahti - Strategic Director (@elahti), Phil Savage — Global Editor-in-Chief (@Octaeder). Hopefully they can see this HN thread and people complains and do "something" about that.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/meet-the-team/

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by nickburns »

djoldman wrote: post #72

I can't recommend enough limiting JS to an allowlist. By default, I browse without JS. If I get to a website that I want to explore that requires JS, I turn it on with one click: https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher

NoScript is the standard for this, with uBlock Origin being something like its 'spiritual successor'.

I run both side-by-side.

https://github.com/hackademix/noscript

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by robrain »

OptionOfT wrote: post #94
MBCook wrote: post #17

The title buried the lede. > In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads. I’m guessing this is due to autoplaying videos. *500 MB* in 5 minutes. 37 MB is petite compared to that.

It is absolutely disgusting that even today it is impossible to stop video autoplay on Safari on iOS. I can't image the data wasted.

Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc).

Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by MBCook »

qingcharles wrote: post #63
ericd wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’m honestly amazed they tried that. It’s been so long, it felt like a play to cache in on the name but I feel like a huge chunk of people don’t really remember it or weren’t even around for it.
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