

Websites try to aggressively optimize your content for lower bandwidth, so they compress it using lossy algorithms.
Ad networks want to represent the ad content clearly so they are not as aggressive about it.
The irony is sites who care that much about performance kill their own performance by adding these slow ad networks. It’s wild how much ads ruin your load times.
I’d say power creep in Pokemon might even be worse than in Magic. Looking at old cards vs new cards makes it painfully obvious.