All I wanted to do was read a post on Winston Rowntree‘s Patreon page, yet something was blocked by uBlock Origin. In trying to find what it was, I found the page was pulling in 91 separate resources from 15 different sites:
s3.amazonaws.com s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com api.amplitude.com maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com ajax.cdnjs.com cdnjs.cloudflare.com connect.facebook.net s-static.ak.facebook.com www.facebook.com www.google.com fonts.gstatic.com www.gstatic.com mandrillapp.com api.patreon.com www.patreon.com
Do we really need all that crud? It’s a bunch of trackers and fonts and mystery swf and javascript. It might be all responsive web like, but the more fancy you do, and the more of other people’s “TRUST ME†code you pull in, something’s gonna go wrong.