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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)

There’s a sort of breathless industry-specific fact in software that goes around every so often.

There are 24-hour periods of my life where I was using that consumer web for 24 hours (my coworker asked, “weren’t you worried about blood clots?” - you walk around). If it has been put on websites by some folks like me, and seems like an inducement to get you to do things on the Web, it is probably amenable to blocking, latency reduction, or some other sort of mutilation that will allow you to resume being a normal human being in some way. Not even considered the possibility of browsing the web without adblock anymore (the good stuff, too) Used an extension to remove all the comments from Youtube Coerced old-style on Reddit without an infinite scroll Withdrawn mostly from Reddit in favor of early 2000’s style forums that I pay money for and HN Deleted Facebook with especial, complicated and sophisticated prejudice which I will not detail here

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