Anything that increases the entry time by a second or more is a pretty good way to make me (and probably others) just not bother with opening the website.

Usually the Anubis anti-bot things only take a second. But I stared at one for more than 30 seconds the other day when I tried to access one of the Linux kernel websites. Literally just a progress bar with a hash counter. I was on a modern iPhone, I don’t know why it took so long. maybe because my phone had low battery? But it’s infuriating that this is what the web has become.

The web is becoming more and more unusable every day. If your data is easy to access, it gets stolen and scraped, your site effectively DDOSed. If your site is hard to access nobody will visit.

Just removing a couple of ad scripts would probably get the loading time back where it was.