{"id":22320,"date":"2018-07-31T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:26:20","slug":"the-bullshit-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/the-bullshit-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bullshit Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/bullshit-web\/\">Nick Heer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17655089\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/bullshit-web\/\">\n<p>The average internet connection in the United States is about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/616210\/average-internet-connection-speed-in-the-us\/\">six times as fast<\/a> as it was just ten years ago, but instead of making it faster to browse the same types of websites, we&rsquo;re simply occupying that extra bandwidth with more <em>stuff<\/em>. Some of this <em>stuff<\/em> is amazing: in 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2006\/09\/12Apple-Announces-iTunes-7-with-Amazing-New-Features\/\">Apple added movies to the iTunes Store<\/a> that were 640 &#xD7; 480 pixels, but you can now stream movies in HD resolution and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2146462\/prepare-for-fake-4k-new-standard-will-silently-compress-pc-tablet-video.html\">(pretend) 4K<\/a>. These much higher speeds also allow us to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/07\/photos-of-the-week-pug-mugshot-umbrella-sky-helsinki-summit\/565670\/\">more detailed photos<\/a>, and that&rsquo;s very nice.<\/p>\n<p>But a lot of the <em>stuff<\/em> we&rsquo;re seeing is a pile-up of garbage on seemingly every major website that does nothing to make visitors happier &mdash; if anything, much of this stuff is deeply irritating and morally indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In isolation, the few seconds that it takes to load some extra piece of surveillance JavaScript isn&rsquo;t much. Neither is the time it takes for a user to hide an email subscription box, or pause an autoplaying video. But these actions compound on a single webpage, and then again across multiple websites, and those seemingly-small time increments become a swirling miasma of frustration and pain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Qualitatively, it makes using the Web feel so much slower on my iPhone that I try to avoid doing that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer (Hacker News): The average internet connection in the United States is about six times as fast as it was just ten years ago, but instead of making it faster to browse the same types of websites, we&rsquo;re simply occupying that extra bandwidth with more stuff. Some of this stuff is amazing: in 2006, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-31T20:26:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"f8383c06-3ab2-4225-ac72-a4df3f6c5da7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-31T20:26:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-Dg8BjqyQiWscqTfP2xdpw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1463,96],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accelerated-mobile-pages-amp","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22321,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions\/22321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}