[godzillafarts]

Clicked the link. Immediately greeted with a CTA banner, a Google ad, and a cookie banner. Dismissing the cookie banner immediately reveals another Google ad, but this one is sticky and follows me as I scroll. Reading through the article I came across at least three more advertisements.

Kind of difficult to take this seriously.

[JoachimSchipper]

That is on IEEE, not on the author - the article was originally published on the (fast, ad-free, privacy-preserving) author's site at https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-softw...

[mcdonje]

That is ironic, given the topic.