> The article somehow contrives to be 18 megabytes long, including (in the page view I measured) a 3 megabyte video for K-Y jelly, an "intimate lubricant".
(Warning. Swear words incoming, because the situation has grown far out of control)
Fuck websites with autoplay (or autoplay-on-hover) videos. Fuck them. Whoever has invented or implemented this crap, please resign from your post immediately.
Even in 1st world countries, people use 3G/4G with data caps to work or are in otherwise bandwidth-constrained environments (public hotspots, train/bus wifi) etc. You are screwing over your users and don't realize it.
Also, something especially Spiegel Online comes to mind: 30 secs video clip with a 25s advertising clip. Fuck you.
> Why not just serve regular HTML without stuffing it full of useless crap? The question is left unanswered.
Easy actually: because a well-defined restricted subset of HTML can be machine-audited and there is no way to abuse it. Also, Google can save resources at indexing.
(Warning. Swear words incoming, because the situation has grown far out of control)
Fuck websites with autoplay (or autoplay-on-hover) videos. Fuck them. Whoever has invented or implemented this crap, please resign from your post immediately.
Even in 1st world countries, people use 3G/4G with data caps to work or are in otherwise bandwidth-constrained environments (public hotspots, train/bus wifi) etc. You are screwing over your users and don't realize it.
Also, something especially Spiegel Online comes to mind: 30 secs video clip with a 25s advertising clip. Fuck you.
> Why not just serve regular HTML without stuffing it full of useless crap? The question is left unanswered.
Easy actually: because a well-defined restricted subset of HTML can be machine-audited and there is no way to abuse it. Also, Google can save resources at indexing.