Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth

Re:Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce ... by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:02AM (#11025663)

I think the OP is confusing strategic and tactical decisions by Google. On a strategic board-level view, yes Google is an ad company and reducing web page size without stripping ads is a bit disingenuous. Strategically Google will never drop ads, so the next best step for this project probably won't happen

However tactically Google benefits from paying clever people to make great products irrespective of their strategic fit - and this seems a good product.

I had never heard of it, and will build it in my pipeline RSN.

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Re:Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce ... by true_religion on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:12AM (#11025853)

> Strategically Google will never drop ads, so the next best step for this project

I'm curious what this step would be?

NGINX pagespeed is a server side module that you run before you send data to the end-user.

Many people who own servers want to extract revenue from their end-users, and yes, that means ads.

If pagespeed stripped ads from a person's website, I think they'd be very unappreciative of it.

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Re:Nginx module by Google for rewriting web pages to reduce ... by DannoHung on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @08:40AM (#11026357)

Reducing page size while stripping ads is something that no one serving a web page would do so this line of reasoning is horseshit anyway.

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