Shubham Bose

The 49MB Web Page

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Good UX is highly desired and once you get it right, it feels almost natural, intuitive. The current state of news UI assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized. Choosing between a profitable publication and a fast, accessible user experience is not an either-or decision. I guarantee you the engineers at these publications hate this as much as we do, but they are trapped by business models that prioritize short-term CPMs over long-term readership. We just need to stop letting third-party marketing scripts dictate the website's architecture.