Re:Moving towards a faster web
by elorant on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:41AM
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To play devil's advocate here, this could mean that sites will stop loading 50 different scripts just to show an animated newsletter sign-up box or some other fancy shit. I mean for the love of God a lot of modern web sites look like an amusement park. You install uMatrix and everything is considerable faster. Web devs have really dropped the ball. I don't disagree with the main sentiment though that this isn't Google's problem to fix or even their right to intervene, but even if it's fixed as a side effect I'm fine with it.
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I see you're point, but the internet is a free market and people where bad websites will be deserted due to market forces, and not due to regulation of one company.
I leave and never come back to cumbersome websites. Even my grandpa does that, though he just doesn't like the bad experience, he knows nothing about scripts.
If this step Google treats the internet like its one of its products, and Google must ensure good user experience for its products. But no, it's not, it belongs to everyone.
Adding more information doesn't make a market less free.
>Web devs have really dropped the ball
In their defense, this is what product owners want. If it didn't work into the numbers, they would stop doing it.
> If it didn't work into the numbers, they would stop doing it.
This "badge of shame" is a way to makes it works into the numbers... Your voice is sadly nearly worthless to your product owner (that's so sad that I write this...) but a bunch of complains from people, that may just do it.