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| From | Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit |
| Date | 2014-04-05 20:03 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <lhpnhr$673$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Rich <rich@example.com> wrote: > RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: >> Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> Wrote in message: >> > On 2014-04-04, RS Wood wrote: >> >> This makes an interesting comparison between WWW and Usenet >> >> though. Turns out the RSS feed article I posted to Usenet >> >> contained 95% of the content already. But fire up a web browser >> >> and navigate to the web page and you'll use 100X the bandwidth to >> >> see: >> >> 1 sidebar twitter feed of drivel >> >> 2 one stock photo >> >> 3 a couple of banner ads >> >> 4 a bar of social media buttons >> >> 5 a link to the Verge, who I guess wrote the article. >> >> 6 a comment form that no one has used, so no dialogue, no >> >> community, no threaded discussion. >> >> >> >> Useless! >> > >> > Agreed. That's why I do more than half of my browsing in a terminal >> > browser like elinks ;) >> > > >> You know which site almost requires elinks or equivalent? >> LinuxToday.com. That website is so choked with shit it's almost >> unreadable and takes a LOT of time to download. On Lynx it's >> something like 15 KB since none of the images, banner ads, or >> crap-scripts gets read. I can scarcely read that site on any >> other browser. > > Loading it with "NoScript" set to block the crap-scripts and AdBlock > set to block the ads in Firefox results in reasonably decent > performance. > > Testing it just now with the Firefox network monitor running, Firefox > says: > > 5 requests, 57.36 KB, 0.80s > Loads in a few seconds on this AA1 netbook. Like Rich I'm using noscript, but not Adblock. I find noscript makes web browsing *much* more pleasant, and much less dangerous. If you're using FF I highly recommend it.
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[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-02 10:55 +0000
Re:[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 20:19 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-04 23:17 +0200
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-04 21:41 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:31 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-05 16:56 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-05 20:03 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-06 01:47 +0200
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