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its because pressing the reload button stops whatever dumb scripts are running to prevent the website from loading, and causes the page to show what its loaded so far. Basically this is because the website has already loaded, and now they're waiting for the 277 trackers they put in to activate

I know that the reload button causes the content to be displayed, but knowing that does not make it is less frustrating to see the page showing up as fast as it goes away by my own actions...

it makes it infinitely more frustrating for me because it implies the website *can* load faster, but won't because it's too busy making its 175 data trackers phone home before showing me the damn page when people say that ad blockers make the internet faster they aren't joking

We wrote a bit in the server configs that temporarily blocks people who spam the site with too many requests. Once in a while a client calls us asking why the site is down. Maybe it's because you reloaded the same page 100 times in 2 minutes? Yep, it's right there in the log file.

I HATE THIS SO MUCH. The number of TIMES a page, program, app, or other thing has updated the very MOMENT I press a button to reload it. Or when I click on something, but a pop-up window or overlay appears beneath the cursor the VERY FRAME I click on something else. WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING