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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by greenyoda on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:07PM (#21707728)
In the days since 1 GHz CPUs, web pages have also grown from simple HTML/CSS to huge JavaScript frameworks, in which displaying the simplest static content requires a ton of JavaScript.

But if you install a browser add-on such as uMatrix, you can see that surprisingly many web sites will still work just fine if you disable JavaScript (even first-party JavaScript). One example is nytimes.com.

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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by user5994461 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:26AM (#21713089)
Should mention that megabytes of javascripts are slow to download, compile and execute. While a few seconds may go unnoticed on the developer desktops, it will be a lot more on a mobile or laptop.
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