My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video.

Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.

yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site)

And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!

The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!

This whole 'article' feels a lot like an ad for various consumer products.

I think you and 'ekianjo must have scrolled directly to "Entertainment" section and stayed there. Elsewhere, between space probes, military interceptors and radars, medicine (including IoT medicine; who thought it was a good idea?!) and glass floors on high towers, this article isn't very much about consumer culture.

(Unless you want to say that all those other things are just meant to create a stronger desire in visitors to buy the few things they can buy on this list; given my cynical view of advertising industry, I could believe in that.)

And a poor one at that. I don't know about most of the products they describe, but for the Nvidia 2080:

> but watch the explosions bounce off the eyeballs of the characters and it’ll obvious that this is a new era for PC gaming.

Seriously? Followed by a "Buy Now" button, of course. Probably an affiliate link, too.

Yawn.

> Unrejectable Cookies Blocking Access to Articles

Yup, that was an innovation in 2018... (Greetings from the EU)

the great firewall of europe.

The copy is not very well written, for example the part about the engine with variable compression has it backwards. The longer stroke lowers the compression which is favorable to the turbo.

Phew, my 2013 Macbook is lagging from that page..