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Re:Is the web getting slower? by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:01AM (#24416965)
To be honest, we have decided that lowering the cost of building software is the best priority so we choose more and more abstracted software that requires more resources.

The javascript cascade from hell starts when you add a single ad. We wrote a test param to remove ads and the page load went from 35Mb to 1.2Mb... all of it was JS and ad tracking code.

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by wolco on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:40AM (#24417193)
34m ads on each page load? Why not use an ad serving network?
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Re:Is the web getting slower? by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:30AM (#24420258)
Yes. Money and Greed.

Edit: Server-side and client-side rebidding.

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