Even more embarassing is that the article adds really nothing to whatever was written before about rss. Probably gobbled up by AI
PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
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That's not a fair comparison. A desktop wallpaper could be 8 MB for a modern OS just because of screen resolution. A 4-minute music video would probably be 100 MB.
But PC gamer isn't downloading 8mb wallpapers or 100mb 4k music videos. They're downloading ads and and other nonsense. Plus, if I decide to download a music video, that's on me. I chose to download a 100mb file. If I just want to read what amounts to a few paragraphs of text with some branding, I don't think it's fair to say that I'm also choosing to download 40+mb of nonsense that isn't text. Maybe in this new mode…
not using an adblocker is also on the user
yes, it would be better if all ads were text only, so there wouldn't be this adtech fucking warfare for people's attention
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#83we need some sort of a universal crowd-sourced site rating system. Things like user experience, scamminess, user-hostility, site ownership-affiliations,etc.. all opt-in by users of course, you setup the criteria that is important to you and the browser displays different ratings or blocks certain sites (like scammy/fraudulent ones) out right. The reputation providers would also be selectable like search engines. I'd…
On Kagi you can increase/decrease a domain's ranking for your personal search results, and they make the aggregated stats public, showing for example Pinterest as the most blocked site, which matches part of what you're looking for: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=insights
I hope whoever is running Pinterest sees they are the top 7 most blocked sites.
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#84At this point, if you browse the internet without an adblock; it is on YOU.
*without
Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#85To use a good point of reference that I've seen others also start using lately, an installation of Windows 95 is roughly 40MB, so in loading that page you've downloaded approximately one Windows 95 installation. Then another 10+ times with the 500MB more that came after.
Windows XP + Encarta.
The future is today!
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#86Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
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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.
It kind of doesn’t matter. The thing that makes Reddit, to me, is its size. Lemmy will never get there, so it won’t be able to replace it for me.
I love Mastodon, it’s what I use, but it’s not what I lost with Twitter. Some stayed, some went to BlueSky, some Threads, some just gave up. And we’ll never have it again. Assholes destroyed a whole world out of selfishness.
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#88this just reminds me of... - watching "normal" cable tv - listening to "normal" fm radio - shopping on amazon (sponsored... everything)
This is why I pay to get rid of ads in things I like. Podcasts and TV are the big ones. I just started watching season 2 of Jury Duty on Amazon. I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads. Oh my God the ads are so horrible. So much worse than I remember. Also, extra kudos to Amazon for nearly doubling the price of removing the ads the week before the show came out. Ho…
> I had deleted the app when they announced that as a paying subscriber I would be getting ads.
I completely cancelled Prime when they sent that email. To hit me with a monthly charge when I’m already paying a yearly fee just felt so cheap. I was already pretty unhappy with the direction Amazon had been heading; that email was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
My Amazon purchase volume dropped by 60% the following year, and another 10% the year after that. My goal is to get it down to 0, or at least in the single-digits of yearly orders.
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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
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
But PC gamer isn't downloading 8mb wallpapers or 100mb 4k music videos. They're downloading ads and and other nonsense. Plus, if I decide to download a music video, that's on me. I chose to download a 100mb file. If I just want to read what amounts to a few paragraphs of text with some branding, I don't think it's fair to say that I'm also choosing to download 40+mb of nonsense that isn't text. Maybe in this new mode…
not using an adblocker is also on the user yes, it would be better if all ads were text only, so there wouldn't be this adtech fucking warfare for people's attention
I don't mind small non-animated banners either, but anything animated or even audio is a hard DO NOT WANT.