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by _wire_ 707 days ago
> Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement

LOL!

What's engagement?!

Half the embeds I see don't work because the content is censored or rotted.

For content that plays, the rush for my attention includes an overwhelming dynamic of at least three parties with vested commercial interested in the occupation of my mind cramming unrequested and unwanted advertorial content into my nervous system.

Blocking unrequested content and keeping a healthy distance from tracking adds many seconds of delay to access of requested content, and the requested content typically has a cognitive half-life of a few seconds to minutes.

And the requested content itself typically contains order 10,000x milliseconds of insipid attention mgmt jingles and branding setup.

Then to finish it off. Even the most high-minded productions waste minutes of egress begging for "likes, subscribe, comments," reading off lists of sponsors with silly handles, admonishments for upsells, and cappers to "hit the bell, it's so, so, important", immediately following which the player bot resets to cramming a new unrelated vid into my sockets.

Engagement?! Pfft. It's an incursion.