I was having a good time, reading the article with a grin on my face. Until I got to
> On top of it all, a whole mess of surveillance scripts
And I just lost my cool and laughed out loud. Well written, sir.
> On top of it all, a whole mess of surveillance scripts
And I just lost my cool and laughed out loud. Well written, sir.
But he also says this:
> I bet if you went to a client and presented a 200 kilobyte site template, you’d be fired. Even if it looked great and somehow included all the tracking and ads and social media crap they insisted on putting in. It’s just so far out of the realm of the imaginable at this point.
If that's possible, I'm getting that bloat stems from sloppy implementation of all sorts. Fonts. Ads. Tracking. All of it. I suspect that the copy-and-paste approach accounts for a lot of it. And using third-party resources, such as Disqus for comments.
I actually kinda like disqus. Centralized notifications for replies and no more signing up in order to post a comment (for the users), and as a site op I don't have to deal with spam, people trying to XSS my comments and especially: I can statically cache ALL the content and even run without any database at all!
Nowadays many websites don't offer comment sections at all. Probably because it was too much effort on their side to clean up the spam, etc - sad development. Often a captcha would preventvmost spam and idiots from posting shit.
> Out of an abundance of love for the mobile web, Google has volunteered to run the infrastructure, especially the user tracking parts of it.