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Along with these complaints, I wish there was a greater sense of urgency among publishers to reduce page bloat. Some news sites require megabytes of javascript, video, and god-knows-what to display a couple kilobytes of text. It's crazy out there.

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And they load so slowly that you start to read and then the text shift and now you've lost where you were.

The only advantage there is when you can read the whole article before their javascript paywall or anti-adblock script actually loads.

Hm...better web experience with dial up

You know it's bad when one of the threads in your race condition is a human's fingers.

"We noticed you're using an ad blocker..."

WashPo...

"Why yes, thank you website -- I actually installed it hoping to get into a discussion with you about it. I'm wondering is it wrong for me to use it? Please advise!"

And if you act today, we'll throw in a little lightning bolt icon! Oh wait, is AMP good today or evil?

Evil every day. It breaks tabbed browsing and pins one of those stupid bars to your screen.

"Oh wait, is AMP good today or evil?"

Oft evil will shall evil mar.

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