• jnod4@lemmy.ca
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    2 days 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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      1 day 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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        1 day 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