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Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G, even though they used to just load more slowly?
I remember that back then (2017–2020), most websites loaded just fine, whether on 3G or EDGE — the only difference was the speed. As of today, even the search engine lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ (in G...
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Ferki
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2026-08-13T10:32:35Z (about 1 month ago)
Why do websites today refuse to work on EDGE/2G, even though they used to just load more slowly?
I remember that back then (2017–2020), most websites loaded just fine, whether on 3G or EDGE — the only difference was the speed. As of today, even the search engine lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ (in Google Chrome) barely works when searching on H+ and 3G mobile networks — not to mention EDGE. When I try to open a website on EDGE, the browser displays the message: DNS_PROBE_STARTED.