• Gobbel2000@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    Which makes total sense given that video hosting is insanely expensive, especially at the scale at which YT is operating. I forget the exact number, but I heard that over half of the global internet bandwidth is used for video streaming from just a handful of websites.

    That said though, I still choose Ublock Origin.

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      16 hours ago

      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.

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        11 hours ago

        I get the idea, but it seems hardly reasonable to pay companies for the bandwidth they use. Wouldn’t that incentivize wasting bandwidth?

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          8 hours ago

          I can foresee a news website sending me gigabyte websites just to cheat the system. This is the part where the system breaks down