every time google makes one of its products worse to increase ad revenue I'm reminded of the recruiting event they held at my college in 2006 or 2007 where they bragged about how unwaveringly devoted they were to efficiency, by way of talking about how every additional byte on the google home page cost them several thousand dollars a year in additional bandwidth
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man i really wish [$WEBSITE] still cared about bytes. not with 10 MB of javascript libraries for every page.
Thank you for reminding me that constantly turning off javascript on a website not only removes paywalls or other obnoxious obstructive features on news sites, but helps everything load faster.