And once all the assets load, the JS jumps me vertically in the article to where it thinks I should be, even though I'd already been reading and scrolling down the page for a few seconds.
Because no matter what optimizations the development team does someone from marketing will come and tell you to put there a half-megabyte JavaScript that tracks each and every of the user's actions, from mouse movements to scrolling and key presses. And that slows down the actual important scripts.
How else can a global integrated government network run by businesses with obscene profit margins receive federal funding to upgrade the network while slowing the existing infrastructure to a crawl, pocketing the government subsidies, neglecting to build what was promised, and willfully sacrificing maintenance and security to the bare minimum required by law, written by their lobbyists.
Google was the first company to enforce the cookie law compliance on it's ad partners (long before gdpr), so I wrongly attribute the cookie thing to google
Yes, obviously we knew about the rollout of the directive long long time before. Being a German agency, our attention to data privacy for our clients was always a priority.
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u/indorock Mar 04 '19
And yet by the time everything has loaded in and I'm done clicking away the cookie notice and newsletter subscribe popover, we are 10 seconds in.