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Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell?

Posted by timothy on from the here-let-me-bounce-you-a-few-times dept.

Ant snips from Royal Pingdom this excerpt: "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web. And it has a price."

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  1. Re:How do you get offenders to stop? by duguk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not everyone has 1MB/s.

    Any ideas on how to convince people to stop?

    Surely it's the latency, not the bandwidth that is the problem with 301s?
    They can't be much more than a few hundred bytes!

  2. Techie price greater than luser price by apoc.famine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For those of us who use things like NoScript, the price can be that we don't get there. Ever.

    I know that when I go to a site that can't work unless I allow a half dozen or more other sites to run scripts, I sometimes decide that it's not worth my time. When I click a link that then has to contact several domains, (sometimes ones I have specifically blocked) I might stop right there and close the tab.

    The web isn't just headed towards redirect hell - it's turning into a damn sketchy web of tentacles working their way into every page. When I find ones that I'm not comfortable having around, I don't go back.

    I'm not sure I like what the web has become. Thanks to NoScript, I at least know what it's become.

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