You hit the nail on the head Quasi. Even selecting basic HTML settings for things like web-based email when it bogs down on a DSL connection isn't much of an improvement, that is if the browser doesn't crash because of that shitty code. The pipe is only so big and everyone keeps jamming more and more crap into it.

I've had some degree of success using things like flashblock and adblocker but even so those addons have still got to process the shit it sees somehow and often slows the computer down loading a page as a result. What chaps my ass are the sites that use flash crap to the point that you can't even view the fucking home page at all if you're blocking flash. Another ass chapper are the sites that have a link for a text only version that never works.

In some cases when my connection speed is better than usual I have noticed things slow down even more, which I ASSume is because the site senses I have a faster connection so it shoves more turds into the chute.

I am reminded of the Simpsons episode when Homer sets up a web page with dancing Jesuses and a bunch of other useless crap. That's pretty much what I think a lot of web programmers have become, a bunch of clueless Homers.