Why is modern web development so complicated?

Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by projectileboy on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:59PM (#20638293)

This, this, this. Users didn’t ask for magazine websites - which should be serving up, y’know, images and text - to sit and spin on my phone while all the Javascript libraries load. Users didn’t ask for these things; we as a community just decided to foist it on them.

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by TurningCanadian on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:20PM (#20639795)

A lot of the slowest stuff on websites are trackers that are being foist on developers to foist on the users (if the developers even have control over the trackers, like with GTM)

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by buboard on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:03PM (#20641158)

so you say, but i get the same when using ad blockers or visit sites without ads.

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