Reply to post: Re: You know what's amusing?

Web tracking puts lead in your saddlebags, finds Mozilla study

DropBear

Re: You know what's amusing?

"I got sick of waiting quite literally for 2 or 3 minutes (on an ADSL link!) for DoubleClick to wake up and serve their shit just so the page would render. "

THIS, so very much. It's not specific to El Reg - but my problem isn't the "44% bandwidth saving" but the interminable (literally - the damn progress indicator keeps spinning until I close Firefox later that day if I let it) loading times of some third-party fluff that will never arrive (long after the actual site is loaded), without which the bloody damn page either won't render at all or will simply neither let me scroll down nor at least let me browse any OTHER TAB (because hey we only have a single thread here and everything down to the last stupid IP lookup blocks it indefinitely). Firefox is currently in so many different ways so far away from "adequate" it's not even funny...

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