michaelleung: Well, I'd hate to be the "it's not me, it's you" guy, but it's kinda you.
Well I do have a choice but plenty of others
don't which was the point I was trying to make. Hong Kong may be exceptional in having widespread 100Mb/s Internet but most other countries are far more limited (Britain has 3 million homes with
<span class="podkreslenie">access to less than 2Mb/s</span> for example). Then you have those who have no broadband at all (rural with no access or having to constantly move being two reasons) who are limited to 56Kb/s dialup, 9.6Kb/s GSM or (if coverage exists) 3-7Mb/s HSDPA.
Even
with 2Mb/s (=240KB/s) GOG's homepage takes 7-8 seconds to load. What's the point of having a fast connection if bloated websites drag you back to dial-up levels of performance? Especially when functionality suffers to (as mentioned with the selection tabs that you can't open in a separately).
michaelleung: Firstly, this whole place is really designed from broadband/people with obscenely fast connections.
And it doesn't need to be. Nothing is offered that can't be done using a fifth of the pagesize (compare this forum to any running vBulletin for an example). Now there will clearly be people who like animated pictures and swishing tabs but also those who prefer simple and fast-loading pages. I'm suggesting that GOG should provide a low-bandwidth version to accommodate the latter.
michaelleung: You're downloading GAMES.
Old games, typically under 1 GB. Which can be handled even on dialup with a decent download manager and patience.
michaelleung: Secondly, anonymizing service? For what? If you're a whistleblower or a drug dealer (maybe you are, or I'm just generalizing on it too much), then use it, but if you having nothing much to hide and you want to have a fast connection, just get rid of it!
I don't want to take this thread off-topic, but monitoring of Internet activity is widespread by govenments, commercial companies (e.g. Google) and some ISPs. Whether you have "
<span class="podkreslenie">nothing to hide</span>" or not, you are still being tracked and it's not only those who live under dictatorships who should consider the consequences.