The Website Obesity Crisis (2015)
"This is a screenshot from an article on NPR discussing the rising use of ad blockers.  It is 12 megabytes in size..."<p>Hmmm.  When I save this page from my browser it's 116k.<p>"... in a stock web browser."<p>Ah-ha.  Perhaps the web browser I am using is not "stock".<p>If so, I can still read the article without a "stock" browser, so not sure what is behind this "stock" idea.<p>I am assuming reading the article is the goal?<p>Could it be the "stock" browser, whatever that is, is the root cause/enabler of the "web page obesity crisis"?<p>"Unfortunately complexity has become a bit of a bragging point."<p>Does that include "stock" web browsers?