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Imagine visiting a website and the ads are sent to you via webtorrent and your browser diligently reshares it. Not only do you suffer the ads, you unwittingly
by pyrolistical 4y ago
Imagine visiting a website and the ads are sent to you via webtorrent and your browser diligently reshares it.
Not only do you suffer the ads, you unwittingly contribute your resources (power and bandwidth) to propagating them
- comprev 4y agoThat is a great example of how all technological developments have an equal and opposite negative side.
- anaganisk 4y agoReminds of PeerCDN acquired by Yahoo and built by same author, it used to work beautifully. https://web.archive.org/web/20150810065820/https://peercdn.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150810065820/https://peercdn.c...
- dv_dt 4y agoSeems like ad blockers have a new field to look at. I was just thinking about what how people would feel about this when they’re on limited or metered bandwidth.
- pyrolistical 4y agoSounds like an amazing browser feature to meter bandwidth. Not only does it increase accessibility of the internet for low bandwidth users (they will use more if they know they won’t blow out their budget) but it will help shame the bloated websites with more user visibility into the issue
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoSeems like it needs a way for users to decide what they share so that we can just share the content and let the ads 404. Hell maybe we can even pay each other--both for the hosting and for the data work necessary to keep the malware (e.g. ads) out.