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by al_borland
2 days ago
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A significant amount of the bloat on the modern internet is to facilitate marketing and advertisements, not for the benefit of the user. I often wonder if we see this downward spiral on sites, because their attempts to monetize increase their costs, which require them to increase monetization efforts, which increase… If we stripped it back, how much would some of these sites really need to run? Multimedia is inherently large, but there are a lot of diminishing returns as resolution and size increases. |
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But seriously, without anyone addressing the elephant in the room, there is no way to make the web simple as ad less.
The newspapers of the late 19th century did this with color page cartoons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Kid
People bought the newspaper for the cartoons rather than the ads, but the ads supported to printing costs. Eventually the competition became so fierce one of the news giants lowered their cost to 1 penny.
Maybe lightweight internet use is a skill that needs to be trained. But with a solid connection for working, I see this less prioritized.