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GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
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Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#12This recipe website is blazing fast too for EU visitors like me, but not quite for all the right reasons: https://food52.com/ If you're not from the EU, this is what their site returns: We're sorry you’re not able to access the site at this time, but this is a temporary measure to ensure we can best protect your data under new privacy regulations. We value your support; thanks for your patience and we can't wait to h…
I noticed with Forbes that if you go to their cookie policy page and switch everything off, it takes several minutes to think about it ("applying your settings"!) then gives you a message saying that they haven't got a version of the page you can use.
This seems... disingenuous.
Anyway, the link above is a breath of fresh air. So fast!
Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#13> They went from a load time of more than 45 seconds to 3 seconds, from 124 (!) JavaScript files to 0, and from a total of more than 500 requests to 34.
This strengthens my feeling that JS in web pages (as opposed to web apps) is used mainly against the user, not for them, and it's best to just turn it off unless you really need some specific functinality.
Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#14https://eu.usatoday.com I don't know if it's available outside of Europe, feels like browsing a website locally on my machine.
This is what the web should be like.
Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's beautiful. This is how the web should be.
And how quite a few sites are. It's always a pleasure using those.
Sadly, the majority of sites linked to from Hacker News are not. Half of them is a form of Medium.com and the other half are abominations ranging from autoplay videos that follow you as you scroll to full page reload / jumps if you scroll down too far. It is a constant UI/UX dark/bad pattern showcase.
I use uBlock Origin and there are 50 websites I mostly fixed with custom css via Stylebot, but still, I see several new pages like that daily.
Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#16This recipe website is blazing fast too for EU visitors like me, but not quite for all the right reasons: https://food52.com/ If you're not from the EU, this is what their site returns: We're sorry you’re not able to access the site at this time, but this is a temporary measure to ensure we can best protect your data under new privacy regulations. We value your support; thanks for your patience and we can't wait to h…
Accessing http://geniuskitchen.com from the EU just redirects to https://www.foodnetwork.com/not-available.html :/
This probably means that they disrespect users.
Re: GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
#17https://eu.usatoday.com I don't know if it's available outside of Europe, feels like browsing a website locally on my machine.
There is practically nothing on the webpage for uBlock, Ghostery and Privacy Badger to block. It's like a dream come true.
Wow, it's like browsing the internet in 2009 again - everything just works.
How did the web get so morbidly bloated again?