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minus-squarejnod4 ( jnod4@lemmy.ca ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWhat if half of our ISP bill went to subsidy websites based solely on how many megabytes/GBs you’re using towards or from a certain source.
minus-squareGobbel2000 ( Gobbel2000@programming.dev ) linkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoI get the idea, but it seems hardly reasonable to pay companies for the bandwidth they use. Wouldn’t that incentivize wasting bandwidth?
minus-squarejnod4 ( jnod4@lemmy.ca ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoI can foresee a news website sending me gigabyte websites just to cheat the system. This is the part where the system breaks down
minus-squareLifter ( Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoMaybe the opposite would work: serve the same content as the competitors with lower data.
What if half of our ISP bill went to subsidy websites based solely on how many megabytes/GBs you’re using towards or from a certain source.
I get the idea, but it seems hardly reasonable to pay companies for the bandwidth they use. Wouldn’t that incentivize wasting bandwidth?
I can foresee a news website sending me gigabyte websites just to cheat the system. This is the part where the system breaks down
Maybe the opposite would work: serve the same content as the competitors with lower data.