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Just an aside but Google should really stop outsourcing their web builds. The quality is terrible

I'm quite taken aback to be viewing a Google website where the 5.8MB images are loading at a crawl, because they're completely unoptimised pngs equal in size to bmps of the same resolution!

Oh hey apparently there are some 26MB of mp4s that didn't load at first, they served a 2.4MB "Mobile" mp4 instead, so it's not all bad.

I fail to see what is so wrong with it. It works on mobile, and it has some actual information. I suppose at least 95% of the internet is worse off. Are you sure it is not a taste issue?

It works, that's true! It's just not designed or built to a very high standard (and I expect the arbitrators of the internet to build to a very high standard) ... So I'd say it's a quality issue.

Massive assumption that it was built by an external team. But I'd hope so :)

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