[throwawayswede]

You do realize those people you call weird mainly refuse to enable js by default because of the amount of tracking it imposes right? Not to mention those “designed” articles (the verge style) that load like 3 megs at least of a god awful amount of crappy slider libraries and crappy stuff?

This is such a basic thing to refuse that what’s actually weird is that you find it weird.

[dwighttk]

3 megs!? That won’t even fit on two of my floppy disks

[dotancohen]

I worked with someone not so long ago that was on a 750 KiB connection. I myself remember that speed at being blazingly fast at one point - so fast that we could start listening to a song before Kazaa finished downloading it.

3 megs of unnecessary data meant that he would sit 3 unnecessary minutes waiting for a page to load.

[throwawayswede]

I had a bad connection for the majority of my internet usage life. People don’t understand that excessive data loading is superfluous. But to call people who worry about that weird is truly strange to me.

[daddylongstroke]

Same here. I'm still on a 3Mb DSL connection, and to be quite honest, according to my graphs, it's closer to 196KB/sec. Why in the world would I enable JS when I mostly don't need to? I'm just trying to read text!

[chakkepolja]

Not only tracking. For text sites it's just waste of bandwidth. And where I live internet is slow.