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Would be interesting if a site had a hierarchy of content, with the top-level content only available to those running fast hardware and therefore generating mor
by ballenf 9y ago
Would be interesting if a site had a hierarchy of content, with the top-level content only available to those running fast hardware and therefore generating more revenue.
Those on cheap or slow hardware might be limited to older or less valuable content.
Now that is a dystopia I don't think anyone would like to see.
- zaroth 9y agoI’m willing to bet that the value of an ad impression correlates pretty well with the relative compute power of the device. But, sites don’t generally restrict/reserve content for, e.g. Android/iPhone users because they are more/less valuable to advertisers. The premise is that opt-in mining can be used as an efficient micropayment. Any new technology can be used toward dystopian ends, or not, so it’s not a reflection at all on the merit of the idea.