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  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "description": "No sense of irony.",
  "path": "/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T15:48:35.511Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:ex23caczr45rodrfcxrwps6h/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "rss"
  ],
  "textContent": "There's not much worth quoting in this PC Gamer article but I do want to draw your attention to three things.\n\nFirst, what you see when you navigate to the page: a notification popup, a newsletter popup that obscures the article, and a dimmed background with at least five visible ads.\n\nSecond, once you get passed the welcome mat: yes, five ads, a title and a subtitle.\n\nThird, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that's not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.\n\nWe're lucky to have so many good RSS readers that cut through this nonsense. 1\n\nFootnotes\n\nNetNewsWire, Unread, Current, and Reeder, to name a few. ↩",
  "title": "PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading"
}