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The bloat isn’t from styles, it’s the megabytes of JavaScript for tracking, browser feature shims, and general wastefulness of web developers.
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Yeah fair point.
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Exactly, so much bloat is JS libs for all sorts of trivial enhancements... plus let's be honest, the web is the least bloated when you compare it video streaming of audio...the days of worrying about bloat are long behind us..people want their content nicely formatted and available everywhere, that's a necessary evil of 2020 web
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Yep. Try turning it off -- you don't even need noscript, Chrome has a built-in way to turn it off per-site (click the padlock next to the URL, then "Site settings").
Most news sites load in a couple hundred milliseconds with JS off.
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