Just a few years ago, it was really easy to get a spiffing internet experience. You just went into the browser settings and deactivated Flash. Once flash was gone, pages loaded quickly and most ads were gone.
Now, it is unfortunately widespread knowledge that Flash was trash - a security risk, a usability nightmare and usually impossible to use for people with disabilities.
The sad consequence is that servers nowadays remove Flash and replace it with HTML5 animations. Besides they do other clever and processor intensive things using HTML5.
The consequence is that each page takes longer to load, and there is no magic bullet to speed them up.
In the good old days, I could open twenty pages in separate tabs with one click on Firefox. I could then spend a fraction of a second to judge whether they contained anything worth reading today, and if they didn't I just pressed ctrl-W or ⌘-W on a Mac. In less than half a minute, I had seen what I wanted to see of updated sites on the internet, and I could spend the rest of the day doing other more productive things.
Today, without Flash to disable, the internet has become so slow, that I have come to mostly stop using it.
Now, it is unfortunately widespread knowledge that Flash was trash - a security risk, a usability nightmare and usually impossible to use for people with disabilities.
The sad consequence is that servers nowadays remove Flash and replace it with HTML5 animations. Besides they do other clever and processor intensive things using HTML5.
The consequence is that each page takes longer to load, and there is no magic bullet to speed them up.
In the good old days, I could open twenty pages in separate tabs with one click on Firefox. I could then spend a fraction of a second to judge whether they contained anything worth reading today, and if they didn't I just pressed ctrl-W or ⌘-W on a Mac. In less than half a minute, I had seen what I wanted to see of updated sites on the internet, and I could spend the rest of the day doing other more productive things.
Today, without Flash to disable, the internet has become so slow, that I have come to mostly stop using it.
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