There’s not much worth quoting in this PC Gamer article but I do want to draw your attention to three things. First, what you see when you navigate to the page: a notification popup, a newsletter popup that obscures the article, and a dimmed background with at least five visible ads. Welcome Mat Second, once you get passed the welcome mat: yes, five ads, a title and a subtitle. A bit of article Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads. Bandwidth bonanza We’re lucky to have so many good RSS readers that cut through this nonsense. 1
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