Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm
Date	2014-09-12 11:23 +0000
Message-ID	<20140912112357.c4493e7b.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <alpine.LNX.2.02.1409091604230.16011@darkstar.example.org> <c7bikjFe8beU2@mid.individual.net> <lussg3$t0k$2@dont-email.me> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1409111608250.20172@darkstar.example.org> <lut7q7$iml$1@dont-email.me>

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> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (using Firefox dev. tools):
> 
> 5 requests: 33.37KB.
> 
> http://www.soylentnews.org/
> 
> 17 requests: 121.97KB.
> 
> https://pipedot.org/
> 
> 15 requests: 167.98KB.
> 
> https://www.yahoo.com/
> 
> 75 requests: 1,771.55KB (ouch... this is with noscript on "deny"
>                          everything and adblock turned on)
> 


I wonder what kind of scripts craigslist needs to produce such a simple/plain website?  What could it possibly be doing?  I can't be arsed to find out, but find it annoying.

I assume Pipedot has more requests and a heavier front page relative to soylent because of the images it permits.

Yahoo: you're fired.  WTF?

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Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-09 10:34 +0000
  Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rob <monst.oorzudo@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-09 20:04 +0100
    Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-09-09 15:34 -0400
      Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rob <monst.oorzudo@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-16 21:09 +0100
  Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-09 19:27 +0000
  Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm +++ATH0 <usenet.20.sdr@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-09-09 19:39 +0000
    Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-09 16:09 -0400
      Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-10 18:12 +0000
        Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-10 18:40 +0000
          Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-11 11:25 +0000
            Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-11 16:21 +0000
        Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-11 19:17 +0000
          Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-11 16:09 -0400
            Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-11 22:30 +0000
              Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-12 11:23 +0000
            Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-11 22:36 +0000
              Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-12 11:49 +0000
              Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-12 16:26 -0300
                Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-12 17:07 -0400
                Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-13 01:16 -0300
  Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-09-10 08:02 +0100
    Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-10 09:53 +0200
      Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-10 09:44 +0000
      Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2014-09-10 19:59 +0100
        Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-10 19:15 +0000
    Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-10 09:40 +0000
      Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-10 17:09 +0100
  Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-10 10:05 +0200

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