Defluffer promises -45% tokens. I measured the semantic cost of that savings and it's uncomfortable

Back in 2006, running the cyber café, I learned something that took me years to put into words: compressing information has a hidden cost. The caching proxies we used to save bandwidth — every megabyte cost real money — would sometimes serve truncated versions of pages. Users didn't complain that the page was broken. They complained that "something felt off." The form that wouldn't finish loading. The image that appeared cut in half. The cost wasn't technically measurable with the tools we had,