Buffering icons of death, ranked

In a world without Net Neutrality, we'll likely be seeing a lot more annoying loading animations around the web. 

These buffering icons are what you see when an app or video is loading, before you actually view it. And without net neutrality, internet service providers can make some sites load even more slowly (the horror) if their owners don't pay up. That means more buffering hell.

If you have good, stable, and fast internet connections, you hardly see these — but many internet users around the world are not so lucky, and soon, you could be among them. Read more...