>In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.
Which is a criticism, it seems, for any system that values resource attribution over efficiency.
Of course there was flash to deal with rhen too.
Now back when we had 56K Modems was when it really was unusable!
I don't how sites think i want to read an article and warxh a totally unrelated video at the same time.
I'm really starting to miss old style magazines lately.
Click bait and fake headlines about the next iphone have ruinwd the web.
I recall reading that despite the internet being faster, actual website performance has never really improved meaningfully. Whatever speed gains we've achieved have simply been eaten by larger and more complex tracking scripts.
Google themselves are a significant contributor to this problem, for many websites, Google's scripts are the core source of slowness.
I don't think it's unreasonable for users to want to reclaim their browsing experience (and bandwidth). In the sample comparison below we can see savings as high as 90% of data and speed boosts of ~1500% - it's insanity.
https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816