https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS

I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist

In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years

Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it

It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from me in a year

Sadly, here’s how it would go: they’d do it, it be successful, they’d ipo, after a few years they’d need growth, they’d introduce a new tier with ads, and eventually you’d somehow wind up watching ads again