Slashdot brings up a point I complain about: Ad servers are slowing down the web.

I do not use web applications because they are slow. I do not know what people do to pass the time when they wait for each page to load. Using web mail, and adding an attachment makes you feel like you wasted precious time.

The web is mostly slow because of server latency. Especially “waiting for …” whatever ad server has been bogged down. I particularly dislike the sites that also use the slow Google Analytics servers.