I tend to agree unless everyone else is using 32GB favicons on the default websites like me. Streaming takes up a massive amount of bandwidth. That and P2P to

I tend to agree unless everyone else is using 32GB favicons on the default websites like me. Streaming takes up a massive amount of bandwidth. That and P2P torrent sharing is only increasing with all the streaming services going back to the cable TV payment plan models. There are a handful of bots that mirror/archive multimedia content that is anonymously accessible. There is no way those bots have the storage capacity to mirror even a single pass of all the anonymous content. What I have seen increasing exponentially is port scanning but that takes up almost no bandwidth. Even the broken scanners that in effect look like an amateur DDoS only utilize about 15kb/s using dozens of CIDR blocks at the same time. That does not even remotely hold a candle to streaming. The link below [1] is talking about Netflix as a percentage of internet downstream traffic and this is only Netflix. There are now hundreds of streaming providers and according to Sandvine streaming accounts for 65% of internet traffic. [2] This does not include torrents and other file sharing. Here [3] are some fun stats. One of them backs up the submission but it isn't clear if they mean requests or bandwidth. Given that Netflix or streaming alone is 65% of the bandwidth that would lead me to believe the issue of this thread is a lack of clarity around bandwidth vs requests. The wording on all of these sites is too Wibbly Wobbly. Every day, the internet generates more than 2,183,908 tons of CO2 emissions. Internet traffic statistics show that 51.8% of all traffic is generated by bots, while humans account for only 48.2%. I think they mean requests, not bandwidth. [1] - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-much-of-the-internets-bandwidth-does-netflix-use/ https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-much-of-the-internets-band... [2] - https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/01/20/sandvine-video-data-bandwidth-internet-traffic-report-streaming-video-youtube-netflix/ https://www.tubefilter.com/2023/01/20/sandvine-video-data-ba... [3] - https://dataprot.net/statistics/internet-statistics/ https://dataprot.net/statistics/internet-statistics/