@BradAT There's also a suggestion that the platonic ideal of the web is plain text web pages. That might appeal to a small sliver of the population (including yours truly!) but are the masses consuming streaming TV, Reels/Tiktok and similar complaining about "ugh this video was 90 mbs"?
@BradAT There's some truth in here but a lazy critique IMO. The author implies that ad blocking would "fix" the user experience NYT. But the heaviest assets are all first-party video, photos and a bit of js:
I really fucked up my conference schedule this year.
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Hey Ian,
We’re attending Space Tech Expo in Bremen, Germany in November and would love to connect if you’ll be there.
xAI Grok pretends to be an iPhone when browsing, to not get blocked. but is this legit?
"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
This hack worked for me 10+ years ago.
@BishPlsOk@mikeosullivan@101Programmatic Thank you for _also_ providing the overly-detailed impressions! The level of time and detail you put into this is a huge compliment, truly.
Re: more granular data, to what extent, if any, would a "representative sample" of the publisher meet your need?