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date: 2026-03-22
link: https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
title: PC Gamer loads half a gigabyte of ads
cited: Stuart Breckenridge

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The developers who build this should be ashamed.

Free the web. RSS forever.

> 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.
>  
>  We're lucky to have so many good RSS readers that cut through this nonsense