<story><title>The web sucks if you have a slow connection</title><url>https://danluu.com/web-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&amp;gt; You’ll be surprised at how most of the web still works and is much faster.&lt;p&gt;And you&amp;#x27;ll be more secure, and you&amp;#x27;ll retain more of your privacy.&lt;p&gt;I find &amp;#x27;this site requires JavaScript&amp;#x27; to be another way of saying, &amp;#x27;the authors of this site don&amp;#x27;t care about you, your security or your privacy, and will gladly sell all three to the highest bidder.&amp;#x27;</text></item><item><author>Jakob</author><text>Disable JavaScript. You’ll be surprised at how most of the web still works and is much faster. Longer battery life on mobile, too.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I found out this the hard way.&lt;p&gt;T-Mobile used to offer 2G internet speeds internationally in 100+ countries included in Simple Choice subscriptions. 2G is limited to 50 kbit&amp;#x2F;s, that&amp;#x27;s slower than a 56K modem.&lt;p&gt;While this absolutely fine for background processes (e.g. notifications) and even checking your email, most websites never loaded at these speeds. Resources would time out, and the adverts alone could easily exceed a few megabytes. I even had a few website block me because of my &amp;quot;ad blocker&amp;quot; because the adverts didn&amp;#x27;t load timely enough.&lt;p&gt;Makes me feel for people in like rural India or other places still only at 2G or similar speeds. It is great for some things, not really useable for general purpose web browsing any longer.&lt;p&gt;PS - T-Mobile now offers 3G speeds internationally; this was just the freebie at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danappelxx</author><text>Well, that&amp;#x27;s quite unfair. JavaScript is also used for creating interactive web applications - not just tracking users. Really your attitude comes off unnecessarily aggressive.</text></comment>
<story><title>The web sucks if you have a slow connection</title><url>https://danluu.com/web-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&amp;gt; You’ll be surprised at how most of the web still works and is much faster.&lt;p&gt;And you&amp;#x27;ll be more secure, and you&amp;#x27;ll retain more of your privacy.&lt;p&gt;I find &amp;#x27;this site requires JavaScript&amp;#x27; to be another way of saying, &amp;#x27;the authors of this site don&amp;#x27;t care about you, your security or your privacy, and will gladly sell all three to the highest bidder.&amp;#x27;</text></item><item><author>Jakob</author><text>Disable JavaScript. You’ll be surprised at how most of the web still works and is much faster. Longer battery life on mobile, too.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I found out this the hard way.&lt;p&gt;T-Mobile used to offer 2G internet speeds internationally in 100+ countries included in Simple Choice subscriptions. 2G is limited to 50 kbit&amp;#x2F;s, that&amp;#x27;s slower than a 56K modem.&lt;p&gt;While this absolutely fine for background processes (e.g. notifications) and even checking your email, most websites never loaded at these speeds. Resources would time out, and the adverts alone could easily exceed a few megabytes. I even had a few website block me because of my &amp;quot;ad blocker&amp;quot; because the adverts didn&amp;#x27;t load timely enough.&lt;p&gt;Makes me feel for people in like rural India or other places still only at 2G or similar speeds. It is great for some things, not really useable for general purpose web browsing any longer.&lt;p&gt;PS - T-Mobile now offers 3G speeds internationally; this was just the freebie at the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alvarosevilla95</author><text>Or, they assumed everyone nowadays has a browser with javascript and don&amp;#x27;t care about people who won&amp;#x27;t accept to using js or even know about these people existing</text></comment>