Most of the big webpages are about hosting and sharing content, if we can shift the hosting costs onto the consumer somehow then those applications have no real

Most of the big webpages are about hosting and sharing content, if we can shift the hosting costs onto the consumer somehow then those applications have no real reason to be a business. Of course some content on e.g. Youtube is now partially funded by ad-revenue but that seems like something that happened more or less accidentally, and it has some undesirable consequences (hence why people are increasingly trying out other revenue streams).