We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

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[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Google analytics is on most the websites you'll visit; yet another way big tech spies on us! That's why I use Brave, which blocks the script from even running, since it considers it to be a tracker — which it is.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

sWITCHING OFF JAVA SOLVES THAT DOESN'T IT?

[–]cant_even 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Switching off JavaScript does it.

Get a white-list javascript blocker and learn to use it. It isn't hard and thoroughly worth the effort.

When you install something like NoScript or ScriptSafe browser extensions, they're blocking all scripts on every site you visit. You must then allow legitimate scripts to run from sites you want to fully interact with. The good part is the process is only done once.

  1. Visit a site. Note what loads. Click your blocker's icon for a list of scripts that are trying to run.
  2. The main site domain name will be at the top. Note in the illustration I've already finished allowing the only two javascripts needed to login, post, vote and comment on the 'old-design' Reddit.
  3. Some more complicated sites, like (I hope) your bank or merchants you order from, have cascading trees of scripts that appear as you move through their menu systems. Just use the 'temporary' buttons to experiment with the various scripts offered. It appears daunting, but the more you use the blockers, the more you see recurring ones that you can either accept or reject out of hand.
  4. You don't even have to repeat the process for a new computer. Both the blockers I mentioned above can import/export white-lists from other instances of the app.

"Anything good is worth a little effort".

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Anything good is worth a little effort".

Thanks, I see I have whitelist functionality on my firefox addon, I'll start whiting sites. I wonder if they consider "white list" raciest in the colleges?

[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You watch; the next iteration of some open-source-committee's "Code of Conduct" will discourage [color]lists...

[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't give them ideas...