Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Random but meaningful observation.
Random but meaningful observation: Recently "in response" to "RUSSIANHACKING", all US and EU websites have grown unmanageable piles of "security" devices which are actually NSA spy tools. Almost every website takes at least 15 seconds to load, and some never reach completion unless I hit the X to stop loading.
Korean and Jap websites load INSTANTLY.
You can see the difference in Firefox's loading tooltip below the main window. US/EU sites show an endless parade of Google API, Twitter API, dozens of TLS handshakes, dozens of different adtech thingamajigs adding their cookies and beacons and videos.
Korean sites show 'reading whatever.co.kr' for about 1/4 second if you look fast enough, then the site is fully loaded. Nothing else. No adtech, no Google, no Twitter, no TLS, no Truste, no handshakes. Just the goddamn website.
In other fucking words, US/EU websites are more about spying on you than providing content. Korean and Jap websites are solely about providing content.
¶ 3:48 PM 
