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

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Post by TheDong »

nathanmills wrote: post #157
smelendez wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, a slow connection can be less usable for some apps than none at all. If there’s no connection or you’re in airplane mode, some apps will let you access locally stored/cached data, but as soon as there’s a bad connection, they’ll wipe that data by trying to unsuccessfully refresh it from the server.

This is an easy fix: Just cut off their data after it runs out instead of falling back to 2G speeds. Sounds like a win-win for both the data provider and the user.

I hope you're joking.

The obvious easy fix is to give them unlimited data. If the intent is to give them internet, they should give them internet that functions for the modern web.

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

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Post by xnx »

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.

Does cache turn off when the Chrome network panel is open?

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

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Post by arkt8 »

I have no metrics but there is a lot (if not most of) sites with similar issues.

A simple site of lyrics, or newspapers that start videos automatically. Github was worse, now at least opens a bit more faster, but still very poorer than, example, codeberg. Sites are sites, most want to do fancy things more than to simply let user read its contents.

Would be nice a site that could track it to put some shame. By now, the better sites are just like HN, Wikipedia... unobstrusive and fast even without cache.

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

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Post by CGamesPlay »

xnx wrote: post #162
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.

Does cache turn off when the Chrome network panel is open?

It does when the "disable caches" checkbox is checked, as it is in that screenshot.

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

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Post by TheDong »

wildzzz wrote: post #107
al_borland wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even with good bandwidth and unlimited data, it’s still disrespectful.

I wonder how much money is wasted just transmitting ads over the internet. Like I get websites are getting paid for displaying them but imagine how much cheaper things would be if ads weren't jacking up demands for bandwidth.

It's not wasted bandwidth; we've reached this level of ads because brands have realized that brainwashing the populace via ads to make them want their brand is cheaper than building a better product, so the bandwidth is a small price to pay for brainwashing people.

If we didn't have ads, people would not only need less bandwidth, they'd buy less physical junk, and quite possibly be happier for it.

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

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Post by nathanmills »

TheDong wrote: post #161
nathanmills wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an easy fix: Just cut off their data after it runs out instead of falling back to 2G speeds. Sounds like a win-win for both the data provider and the user.

I hope you're joking. The obvious easy fix is to give them unlimited data. If the intent is to give them internet, they should give them internet that functions for the modern web.

Unlimited data! You make it sound so easy.

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

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Post by SenHeng »

robrain wrote: post #149
OptionOfT wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve always wondered about this, does it stop downloading the video when it stops playing?

My guess is no.

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

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Post by shermantanktop »

casey2 wrote: post #155
__natty__ wrote: post #147

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/

The people writing the article, the people designing the site and the people slapping ads on it all work for PC gamer. You aren't saying anything that everybody doesn't already know, the point is that they are all prisoners unable to act with their free will.

Theres a huge difference between naming a company and naming individuals.

That said, I’ve had to work on projects that I’m not 100% proud of. I’ve had the companies I work for get complained about and in a few cases I had to work on the thing that was being complained about.

It’s hard to argue with a balance sheet.

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

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Post by drnick1 »

wildzzz wrote: post #107
al_borland wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even with good bandwidth and unlimited data, it’s still disrespectful.

I wonder how much money is wasted just transmitting ads over the internet. Like I get websites are getting paid for displaying them but imagine how much cheaper things would be if ads weren't jacking up demands for bandwidth.

Estimates suggest that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all Internet users in the U.S. use an ad blocker.
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