{"id":4077,"date":"2019-08-10T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2019-08-10T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:09:55","slug":"the-bulls-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4077","title":{"rendered":"The Bulls*** Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Here&#8217;s what Nick found on just one slow-loading CNN article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Eleven web fonts, totalling 414 KB<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u2022 Four stylesheets, totalling 315 KB<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u2022 Twenty frames<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u2022 Twenty-nine XML HTTP requests, totalling about 500 KB<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">\u2022 Approximately one hundred scripts, totalling several megabytes \u2014 though it\u2019s hard to pin down the number and actual size because some of the scripts are \u201cbeacons\u201d that load after the page is technically finished downloading.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When ticks me off is going to a &#8216;news&#8217; site and finding I&#8217;m running scripts for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and others I&#8217;ve never heard of. Why? I&#8217;ve never even been on Twitter or Reddit (and have no wish to be). As does the author, I now use script and ad blockers. This breaks some websites. So be it, I won&#8217;t go to them anymore. I just want to read the articles, not have an &#8220;interactive&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/the-bulls-web\/\">The Bulls*** Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what Nick found on just one slow-loading CNN article: \u2022 Eleven web fonts, totalling 414 KB \u2022 Four stylesheets, totalling 315 KB \u2022 Twenty frames \u2022 Twenty-nine XML HTTP requests, totalling about 500 KB \u2022 Approximately one hundred scripts, totalling several megabytes \u2014 though it\u2019s hard to pin down the number and actual size &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bulls*** Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,12,3,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-tech","category-computers","category-evil","category-war-on-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}