You know what is really annoying about the web these days? The ads — not just because there are so many and they’re becoming more intrusive all the time, but because they are served from third party servers. More and more often I’ll surf to a site and then the page will load halfway and freeze, waiting for the ads to load before it will draw the page so I can read the content that’s already arrived.
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