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> the bandwidth, is still very cheap. This is yet another example of US/BayArea Privilege blindness. It is NOT cheap in most places to the User. Including in
by aukhfauwhf 5y ago
> the bandwidth, is still very cheap.
This is yet another example of US/BayArea Privilege blindness.
It is NOT cheap in most places to the User. Including in the unprivileged-USA.
The user pays a lot for that bandwidth. Specially now that everyone will unknowingly move to predatory 5G home services but let me try to stay on topic.
People out of the Empire Center will pay both bandwidth and processing power. Where do you think all those old phones you trade in for the latest apple/Samsung ends up? Everyone is running phones that barely gets any security update anymore and is already slowed to the maximum by the OS itself. Trying to load and then display video ads is just evil.
And that is not web only, Apps are worse. If you install Apps, all of them are following the standard set by amazon, newegg, etc... you will get video ads along your usual usage. Ads in between search listings, ads in your cart! and you have to be much more technical to block those.
There's no escape paying the BayArea-cost.
- throwaway744678 5y agoThe article and your parent are talking of the cost for the producer, not the user.
- sixothree 5y agoThe very article ends with the following: "But even so, again: video is expensive! And I simply can’t see how it’s worth their while to autoplay video on their site. Can anyone explain this to me?!" I'm sure this was an answer to the article this thread references. Bandwidth is cheap and it only gets cheaper.