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Re:The Bullshit Web by yathern on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:53PM (#17655939)
I just loaded up a nytimes[1] article too - and only weighed in at 1.0MB. For a 1000 word article. Subsequent reloads dropped it to ~1000KB. I don't think that's too bad, considering there are images in there as well.

Now of course, I'm running an ad blocker. I assume the remaining MB that you noticed had come from advertising sources. In which case, bloat isn't the issue, ads are.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/facebook-poli...

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Re:The Bullshit Web by rhizome on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:48PM (#17656435)
weighed in at 1.0MB. For a 1000 word article. Subsequent reloads dropped it to ~1000KB.

You really can't beat savings like that.

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Re:The Bullshit Web by welly on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:19AM (#17663258)
That'll knock dollars... no, cents... no half-cents off his ISP bill!
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Re:The Bullshit Web by iforgotpassword on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:05PM (#17656059)
That distinction is nonsense. The ads are part of the page and are no more or less bloat then the rest of the useless junk that gets embedded. It's deliberately put there by the NY times, they don't end up there by accident.
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Re:The Bullshit Web by cheezymoogle on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:04PM (#17656053)
Are you also running noscript? I'm running a DNS sinkhole and still get 3mb on reloads.
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