One of the funniest things around this is whenever I pay for any sort of official content service (comics, manga, books etc.) and I use the official 'cloud reader' service of the respective content owner, the site is super effing heavy and often fails to load images, page turns feel like molasses with image load speeds comparable to late 90s dialup.
As opposed to this, whenever I don't feel like bothering with this and just type in 'Read %THING% online free', the resulting sites tend to be just html pages where the pages are linked in as images and the whole things is blazing fast, and I can scroll without bother.
I'm quite the former sites re built by a small army of engineers and it's some kind of orchestrated microservice thing running region-replicated on some cloud provider-hosted kubernetes cluster, and is loaded to the brim with DRM authorization.
While the latter sites are probably running on some kid's old surplus gaming PC tucked into the corner of their bedrooms, on some PHP site thrown together over the weekend.
As opposed to this, whenever I don't feel like bothering with this and just type in 'Read %THING% online free', the resulting sites tend to be just html pages where the pages are linked in as images and the whole things is blazing fast, and I can scroll without bother.
I'm quite the former sites re built by a small army of engineers and it's some kind of orchestrated microservice thing running region-replicated on some cloud provider-hosted kubernetes cluster, and is loaded to the brim with DRM authorization.
While the latter sites are probably running on some kid's old surplus gaming PC tucked into the corner of their bedrooms, on some PHP site thrown together over the weekend.
Yet the latter is infinitely more usable.