shnurr@fludiblu.xyztoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies?English
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1 year agoWell if you just try to load a news website with and without an ad blocker you will usually notice a huge difference. So yes.
But also, technology has become much more complex compare to the beginning of the internet. So every piece of software is more bloated than it used to be, sometimes for a good reason, sometimes less so.
Efficient and lazy, that’s my way!