That's outrageous—advertisements have really gone too far.

Disabling cache and then complaining that the bandwidth usage never stops increasing is certainly a take, but I'm not sure you can meaningfully draw any conclusions from it.

Trying to use the internet without an adblocker is honestly a tragic and harrowing experience.

it's relatively easy for an ai to write such an article now, just open all websites and gather metrics while crawling...

in warhammer40k surfing without adblocker would be herasy

and they wonder why we use adblockers.

ima start browsing the web via lynx 100% now

This is the cable tv final enshittification from the 90s, every second of the hour being crammed with ads because that’s the last little bit of money that can be squeezed after google took away all the attention

How much would that be costing them? Thats a lot of data to serve for no reason.

Being alerted to, and preventing this, should be a built-in feature of the browser.

Imagine trying to run an ad supported business to a bunch of people who are avid proponents of ad blocking.

Also, thank you to the six people who download those 500MB to keep the site alive for the rest of us.