• herrvogel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Ad blockers don’t protect you against dumbass frontend devs who serve 5mb png files to be stuffed into 600x400 boxes.

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      8 months ago

      I especially hated wallpaper website that load full size pictures on previews grids

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      8 months ago

      No but the good blockers give you the power to disable elements on a case by case basis.

      Removing the background image for fandom wiki articles makes them load 3x faster.