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by nerdponx 3124 days ago
The page took about 10 seconds to load fully on an 8-core laptop with 32 GB of RAM, and continued firing off pixel-tracking requests and pings to scorecardresearch.com for about 80 seconds.

All that for a short article which barely introduced the reader to an interesting topic. It was like a factoid crammed into five paragraphs in order to increase ad real estate.