
The 49MB Web Page: How Ad-Tech Ruined the News
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Modern news websites have sacrificed user experience and performance for aggressive, resource-heavy ad-tech and tracking, creating a 'hostile' web environment.

Modern news websites have sacrificed user experience and performance for aggressive, resource-heavy ad-tech and tracking, creating a 'hostile' web environment.
The non-commercial 'small web' is surprisingly vast and active, proving that personal, ad-free digital spaces are flourishing despite corporate dominance of the internet.

Ditch algorithms and rebuild community with blogs, RSS, and shared feed lists.