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1. kens+71[view] [source] 2023-08-15 04:20:25
>>xslowz+(OP)
I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx"
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2. jquery+22[view] [source] 2023-08-15 04:26:59
>>kens+71
I almost didn't believe OP, because it's so comically inept and petty. But, I can also confirm in some private testing there is a deliberate delay.
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3. adhesi+xd[view] [source] 2023-08-15 06:35:19
>>jquery+22
Considering how common it is to deliberately break (not just with a "you log in now" modal, but not loading content, spinning forever, breaking layouts, etc) websites for non-logged-in mobile users, that's exactly how petty in imagine them to be. Twitter and Reddit do it, and Imgur comes and goes so I can't decide if for them it's deliberate or just incompetence.
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4. deepse+lR3[view] [source] 2023-08-16 10:05:19
>>adhesi+xd
You can add Instagram and YouTube to the list of websites that are painful to use from a mobile browser
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