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Not really, data limits are a necessary evil of infrastructure. It's more the trust-building that's going on between the giants of industry. It's the 1920s all
by chewbacha 8y ago
Not really, data limits are a necessary evil of infrastructure.
It's more the trust-building that's going on between the giants of industry. It's the 1920s all over again, just with different tech.
- shmerl 8y agoBandwidth limit is the natural limit. Not monthly data limit - that's simply a method to fleece users. Nothing to do with infrastructure.
- chewbacha 8y agoBy that logic, api rate limits are a method to fleece api users... which is not true at all. Rate limits are put in place to protect infrastructure for overloading, that's been the main reason I have implemented circuit breakers and rate limiting.
- shmerl 8y agoExcept it's a fallacious logic. ISP networks can perfectly handle the load already. There is no "data flood apocalypse" or anything the like. ISP execs said so much explicitly. They point blank admitted, data caps are not driven by technical needs but simply by greed.
- jusssi 8y agoFor some reason, there are places where this necessary evil doesn't seem to be, well, necessary. Neither my wired not my 4g connection have a data cap. Taking "necessary" out of necessary evil, leaves just evil.