How do regular folks stand browsing the modern web? I have a VM for opening random links with no javascript or ad blocking. When I open certain news sites my laptop fans spin 100% loading all the ads, and it's almost impossible to read the actual story.
To elaborate, this is a disposable VM just for opening random, possibly untrusted links other people send me. I do most of my own browsing in a different VM with ad and javascript blocking in place. It's always jarring to see just how bad the web is without all of that in place.
@kyle even websites without ads are still crippled by “full stack” dependency on garbage from top to bottom. I see this a lot on corporate sites. Abysmal performance that comes from using the latest tech rather than the most well suited, and then doubling down on copypasta of StackOverflow solutions to tricky topics rather than trying to understand a best practice or approach.