[Aristotelian]

They are describing me to a T when I go shopping. No dilly-dallying for me. I get in and I get out. If they don't have what I want, I'm outta of there.

Matter of fact, this is the way many, if not most, men shop. What says to me that the Web is inculcating women with male habits. Hmmm. That could have interesting possibilities.

[HAL9000]

Adobe Flash is an excellent technology with a published file format specification. It is used to transport YouTube videos on the web, and thousands of other sites. In many cases, Flash is more efficient than JPEG and other graphics formats in terms of file size and network transmission time. The main limitation with Flash is usually the designer.

[Signalman]

They are describing me to a T when I go shopping. No dilly-dallying for me. I get in and I get out. If they don't have what I want, I'm outta of there.

That's the way all straight men shop (when they're not with their wives or girlfriend).

[relictele]

Unfortunately many site/domain/commerce owners still fall prey to the promises and BS of third-party consultants & developers and believe in the fool’s gold of Flash, forced-resized windows and the like.

[rabidralph]

Obviously, these brits never visited FR.

[BenLurkin]

many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.

How is that "selfish"?

[Señor Zorro]

Of the examples given in the excerpt (I didn't follow the full article through), I don't see anything particularly selfish about the behavior described. Don't get me wrong, people are quite selfish. I just don't see how what the particular behaviors described have to do with that trait. For example:

Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.

What else are they supposed to do? Hang around and stare at a page with no goal or purpose in mind? Is it somehow inherently humanitarian to stare at some random schnooks web page?

Most ignore efforts to make them linger and are suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention.

Of course. Given that most "promotion" is only a little divorced from fraud and that there is plenty of real, honest to goodness fraud on the web, why shouldn't people be suspicious?

The points made about browsing habits seem to be valid (i.e. most people DO browse quickly; this is one of the first things you learn when putting together a website), but the conclusion ("people are more selfish on the web!") seems to be a more incendiary way of saying: "people who browse the web don't act the way advertising conglomerates would like".