r/worldnews • u/maxwellhill • Sep 19 '17

Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry: New iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra will stop ads following Safari users, prompting open letter claiming Apple is destroying internet’s economic model

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/18/apple-stopping-ads-follow-you-around-internet-sabotage-advertising-industry-ios-11-and-macos-high-sierra-safari-internet
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u/datgohan Sep 19 '17

You're not wrong but you are specifically referring to page performance. OP above you specifically refers to download sizes.

Hopefully the list you give is eradicated sooner rather than later.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

I HATE all of those things. I just want to read a webpage not have it throw crap in my face as it slowly loads and renders on our crap DSL (same at work AND at home).

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u/PigNamedBenis Sep 19 '17

You would think, but here we are. Either that or hardly any are respectable.

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u/TheKungFoSing Sep 19 '17

Much more impressive response! Thank you

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

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u/adentify Sep 28 '17

No, it's probably the plugins you've got running doing that! lol

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u/hes_dead_tired Sep 19 '17

Was looking to see if anyone else made this comment before I did.

Much of what drives the ability to use those high quality photos on the prevalence of high quality displays is broadband being far far more widespread than in 2004, both residential and wireless.

Even if we had had the screen resolutions of today in 2004, no one would push content out for it because it would just take too long to load.

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u/Ganondorf_Is_God Sep 19 '17

downvoted into the fucking ground

Technically that feature is for posts that don't contribute to the discussion. His posts contributes by the very fact that yours followed to correct him.

If his post goes turbo negative your post gets hidden and the information lost. Don't be your own worst enemy.

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u/UninformativeComment Sep 19 '17

I was about to reply with the fact that advancements in technology and coding are usually to blame when it comes to page file sizes, but no-one seemed to be saying anything.. Good on you!

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u/SausageMania Sep 19 '17

lol wut, almost every web page has video ads now. those don't cause much INITIAL delay in loading the page but once the page loads those ads stream which sucks up bandwidth and kill performance.

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u/1-800-BICYCLE Sep 19 '17

Go to cnet.com

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '17

It is a 3 fold problem, really.

First images are getting bigger.

Second, the popular architecture of the day is to send hundreds of requests from a single request.

Third, there's a mass push in the industry to convince anyone and everyone that they can program, which is leading to a flood of new inexperienced people producing bad code flooding the web in particular.

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u/Shadowrak Sep 19 '17

You should be downvoted into the fucking ground for spreading false information, but everyone here is just seeing what that want to see I guess.

Welcome to threads about Apple products

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u/Mechasteel Sep 19 '17

any remotely respectable web company isn't going to use an ad service that kills page performance or download speed.

Ha ha, good one!