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Chrome's Lite Pages Speed Up HTTPS Webpages on Slow Connections (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Frustrated by web pages that never seem to load properly? Well, Google hopes to make them a thing of the past. Today, the company announced that Chrome on Android's Data Saver, a feature that automatically improves page loading using "built-in optimizations" and dedicated servers -- speeding them up by a factor of two and reducing data usage by up to 90 percent -- now supports encrypted HTTPS webpages. Previously, it only worked with unencrypted HTTP content. The latest stable version of Chrome on Android indicates in the URL bar when a lightweight version of a web page -- a Lite page -- is being displayed. Tapping the indicator shows additional information and provides an option to load the original version of the page. Google says that Chrome will automatically disable Lite pages on a per-site basis when it detects that "users frequently opt to load the original page."
The real cause: SHITTY JavaScript that pulls in half the world's code base just to render "Welcome to my shitty web page!"
If you're "web developer" creating such abominations, you are a turdbrain dumbass and probably too incompetent to jerk off.
I mean the default for chrome for android is that Google will read everything you browse?
Holy cow this is the very thing we are afraid of. like Facebooks Internet basics initiative and all the links inside facebook that only work inside facebook. Already many web pages are no longer accessible on an iphone unless you install chrome. Now we get this version of the internet only available to websites that optimize their pages for big Goog.
I de-installed chrome just like I quit facebook
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
... if you want your content to make it to the device requesting it, please pay a toll to google, then proceed.