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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by sva_ on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:37AM (#46495655)
For me in Firefox it only loads the article's HTML (50-70kb) and the favicon (7kb).

Are you sure it isn't some addon you have?

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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by pandemic_region on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:43AM (#46495949)
It could be the cookie banner appearing.
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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by IanCal on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:19AM (#46497131)
It is, the content loads first, then the js for the cookie banner, then the favicon. If the js fails to load (I blocked the request as a test) the page loads just fine, it isn't blocked by that.
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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by reddalo on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:54AM (#46497353)
I bet you're using uBlock Origin
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Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website by zamadatix on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:56AM (#46498256)
The articles HTML is ~60 kb compressed and ~10x that uncompressed, which accounts for both apparent sizes.
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