Facebook has put everyone else on notice. Your content better load fast or you’re screwed. Publication websites have become an absolutely bloated mess. They range from beautiful (The Verge) to atrocious (Bloomberg) to unusable (Forbes). The common denominator: they’re all way too slow. Instant karma’s gonna get them

this is why i have javascript off by default, and only allowlist maybe 10 sites. it avoids all those stupid “widgets” that these sites love so much.

The price of efficiency for advertisers’ is the user experience of the reader. The problem for publishers, though, is that $ and cents — which come from advertisers — are a far more scarce resource than are page views, leaving publishers with a binary choice: provide a great user experience and go out of business, or muddle along with all of the baggage that relying on advertising networks entails

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