Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'
by antiterra on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:05AM
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Back then people also got hit with ludicrous internet bills the moment their site had large scale use and banner ads were the only real path to managing that cost. Adding a paywall would have created a severe amount of bad will.
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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'
by sethammons on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:56AM
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Lots of sites just turned off after a given amount of load and you would have to try again later, usually the following day. I think that is an appropriate trade off. It is one reason why mirror sites popped up.
Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'
by impossiblefork on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:20PM
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These days though, that could be solved with things resembling bittorrent for websites etcetera though.
I think some fairly complete solutions already exist in the video space, like peertube.
Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'
by convolvatron on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:36PM
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the problem isn't that moving bits is too expensive.
its that moving bits is _almost_ free.
you would think the best model would be each of us ponying up a couple dollars a month to support the whole thing
but in the US at least we don't trust anything unless its delivered to us by a long chain of scammers 'innovating'.