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Re:Making Websites Small by marto1 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:18PM (#29407937)
On that note has anyone tried to "compress the Web" ? I know the Internet Archive is archiving it, but is there a browser or a tool in general that makes websites smaller while preserving functionality ?
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Re:Making Websites Small by nicbou on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:06PM (#29409750)
A bit like Reader Mode in some browsers?
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Re:Making Websites Small by marto1 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:13AM (#29413396)
it's a bit of a stretch to say it preserves functionality :-) I meant it more in the lossless compression sort of way.
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Re:Making Websites Small by technobabbler on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:10PM (#29409789)
Gzip does that, chrome mobile will proxy and recompress things in data saver mode, cloudflare will minify pages and scripts and recompress images and lazy load things for you if you let it.

You can also just run an ad blocker and most of the weight goes away

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Re:Making Websites Small by dekerta on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:37PM (#29408157)
Opera Mini used to do this
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