Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t read the article but I like to point out to people that ads are coming in at a whopping 4k, sometimes shitty sites even deliver several resolutions of the same ad. They even send over ridiculously high quality audio that has not been compressed. Some sites even jam pack hundreds of these ads per minute on each page you scroll to. It’s even worse on sites that have infinite scroll.

    My point being… the internet is broken, block as many ads as you can, fuck Google and fuck Comcast.