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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading (stuartbreckenridge.net)
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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 21 points 1 day ago

Seems like an appropriate companion piece, I have forgotten what pointed me toward this:

The 49MB Web Page

I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.