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Originally Posted by jjshabado
Sometimes I have no idea if you're being serious or not.
Of course I'm serious.
I firmly believe that design is a tool best used with empathy. That is empathy towards the very large swath of people with poor eyesight and people with internet slower than 100mbp.
If you are creating sites that are difficult to read or creating sites that throttle my machine and I am running 50mbp, then the least these sites should do is have a huge button on their site saying: "Can't read this or too slow? Click here." so that people who are suffering from UX neglect have an option to turn off the silly styles and whatever other resources are killing their computer.
So yes, if sites want to do light on light or make me wait to see their content, then I feel like they deserve equal effort from me to see their content, thus the appropriate response is Alt <-.
Since I am not supplied with said button on websites, having all the trash turned off by default has made my browsing life much more pleasurable. Yes, this is an admission that sites with derelict design sometimes offer useful content. The irritation stems from the fact that I know this.