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Which sites do that for any meaningful reason? I see this argument often, but have a hard time either coming up with an idea of a business for which it would be non-marginally profitable or finding a real app/site which does that to cover the last mile of its world-wide scale.

Until that I believe this argument is equivalent to “what about Mars”. By supporting dead slow connections on Earth you simply support them to remain so.



> Which sites do that for any meaningful reason?

Literally none...this is just the argument of contrarians or people who've only ever worked on personal projects who take offense to real applications used by actual audiences.


In itself 10kb doesn’t make a difference. But it adds up so that this mindset can lead to noticeably faster pages.




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