<story><title>GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB</title><url>https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816?s=19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>If you liked the effect of installing an adblocker give disabling Javascript a try.  (You can selectively whitelist a small number of websites). Did this a couple of years back and the difference is astounding.</text></item><item><author>wlll</author><text>The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive.&lt;p&gt;My experience of the web is about a thousand times better than it used to be.&lt;p&gt;I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be willing to bet your &amp;quot;small number&amp;quot; of white listed websites is actually a lot more than you think.  Turning off Javascript breaks a ton of sites, IME.&lt;p&gt;Same thing with cookies.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, web developers have gotten really lazy at feature checking.  In the IE days they&amp;#x27;d at least have a banner saying their page wasn&amp;#x27;t going to work because it required IE or Netscape.   Browsing with cookies turned off nowadays, I hit one or two sites a day that won&amp;#x27;t even display and then often get stuck in infinite redirect loop.&lt;p&gt;Even white listing sites to use cookies is a PITA.  Outlook for Office65, for example, requires white listing cookies from 3 or 4 domains, and due to the way it redirects, I had to dig around in Chrome&amp;#x27;s page inspector to even find out what those domains are.  And of course the page itself gives no indication of why it&amp;#x27;s not loading, it just flashes between empty pages forever.</text></comment>
<story><title>GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB</title><url>https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000166112615714816?s=19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>If you liked the effect of installing an adblocker give disabling Javascript a try.  (You can selectively whitelist a small number of websites). Did this a couple of years back and the difference is astounding.</text></item><item><author>wlll</author><text>The day I added an ad blocker (Adblock Plus, Ghostery and uBlock origin) was the day my CPU fans stopped spinning almost constantly, my battery life improved, web pages loaded faster and were more responsive.&lt;p&gt;My experience of the web is about a thousand times better than it used to be.&lt;p&gt;I will remove all these when the ad companies and websites start to behave themselves, which will be never.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>I have been doing that for a long time but with the use of javascript framework &amp;amp; SPA for pretty much any website, including the least appropriate applications like blogs, I kind of had to capitulate in the name of convenience.</text></comment>