Thread: 'tinterweb bloat

Have you thought of trying Opera Mini?

You can configure it to compress all pages before they are sent to your device.

Plus you can get William Hill on it.

it has been like this for a while,

thanks to all the "ads trackers", useless "scripts" and poorly programmed "html code" by Indians that lazy tech leads put together for their corporation

that's the problem with a fast internet, webdevs become lazy and don't optimize their code. Same problem with PCs, with assumptions that a PC has more than 1GB RAM these days, apps have become memory hogs just for the fuck of it, without any justification.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You can configure it to compress all pages before they are sent to your device

I am using my laptop via wifi hotspot mostly - bypass the corporate network totally for personal email , banking and posting crude one liners on TD

- and dolphin browser with adguard vpn for looking at pages on my device

I have no interest in using opera mini or the chrome version that does the same thing

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You can configure it to compress all pages before they are sent to your device

I am using my laptop via wifi hotspot mostly - bypass the corporate network totally for personal email , banking and posting crude one liners on TD

- and dolphin browser with adguard vpn for looking at pages on my device

I have no interest in using opera mini or the chrome version that does the same thing

Then stop fucking moaning.

Agree Baldrick...I also use my old Nokia phone to connect. Could not understand why data allocation was getting used up so quickly.
Have stopped opening multiple tabs for a start..have a bit logger which put me wise to the hefty increase in the volume of data xfer.
Some news sites have auto start videos which is a fking annoying waste.
I was told many years ago that MS did not rewrite new windows releases just added script...hence data hogging.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Plus you can get William Hill on it.

Nice tip

I just read this in a comment

Go to Google. Right-click -> view page source.

insane

it is like they are drawing the screen one pixel at a time - basic wants its peeks and pokes back

Hardware specs on phones/computers have increased, but so have ads, flash and general bling... windoze has become more and more bloated with each iteration, so the net effect of better hardware/more ram, etc.. has been muted by all the crap..

A few years ago ADSL was sufficient for most users. Now, fibre optic is the minimum to achieve what ADSL used to, due to more ads/bloat...

I used to love opera - because when you clicked the back button (or right then left mouse button) the porn ooops.. I mean images, would be saved in cache so render instantly.. now that's gone.. so everything is re-loaded, consuming more bandwidth...

Ahhh advancement and technology... gotta love it...

My "basic" package gets me 6Gb of mobile data a month. With Wifi around everywhere I never exceed that, and I'm forever on the fucking thing with work emails, etc.

Originally Posted by baldrick

then I refreshed teakdoor new posts - fark - 1.5 meg

Not savvy enough to analyze the prob but last couple days TD taking forever. No prob on any other sites. I am on a 3g connection using chrome. Never super fast but for whatever reason TD super slow. 5 to 10 secs to load a page. Very irritating.