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UBlock Origin will largely solve this - except for inline SVGs. But I understand that they have to do that due to technical limitations with current browsers.

I've grown accustomed to reading unstyled HTML, and I gotta say - I like it.

Sites which host their own CSS and JS look as the designer indended. For example the Washington Post. I just checked the size. The home page is about 200K but when you add everything else it comes to 3MB.

Why should I care about this "bloat"? I don't. Computers are faster (by several orders of magnitude). The internet is faster (by at least two orders of magnitude). I have Fios - if you can get it you should too.




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