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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by rhaps0dy on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:09PM (#14596994)
Would it be possible and good to use desktop users' browsers as WebTorrent hosts for images? This would make the users pay for their browsing, allowing for the experience to be without ads.
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by takeda on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:22PM (#14597113)
Isn't what projects like https://freenetproject.org/ or https://www.torproject.org/ essentially do?
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by rhaps0dy on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:31PM (#14598333)
I don't know about freenet, but definitely not tor. Tor uses a kinda-p2p net to mask the destination of your traffic, but doesn't reduce your bandwidth hosting bill.
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