You can have millions of static pages and serve them very inexpensively. Showing dynamic ads is fundamentally exposing an expensive computational resource witho

You can have millions of static pages and serve them very inexpensively. Showing dynamic ads is fundamentally exposing an expensive computational resource without any rate limiting. If that was any other API or service it would be gated but the assumption here is that this particular service will make more money than lose and it obviously breaks down in this instance. I really don’t think you can say it’s about scale when what you’re scaling (serving ads to bots) doesn’t make any business sense.