When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now [https://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now/] in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have

This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It would be interesting to correlate this page bloat to carbon emissions. The amount of electricity needed to send 200KB versus 3MB is miniscule, but if you multiply it by a billion people viewing a thousand pages a day it could add up fast.

    Not to mention this locks out a lot of the web to developing nations with limited bandwidth

    • nivenkos@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The real issue there is that electricity should be carbon-free with nuclear and renewable power.