technopriest

Yes, I've seen the phrase "seeding to random peers" pop up a few times. Peer selection is actually extremely smart and is by no means "random".

via the Network Information API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Network_Inf...

Connections start metered and are then upgraded when an unmetered connection is successfully detected.

We detect if you are on a metered connection and we disable all seeding functionality to ensure you are not playing for the bandwidth we use. We also have an opt out mechanism, but that is up to the installing site to implement. The reason you would want to host data is that you get a faster internet experience. We fill your cache with assets that YOU are likely to request in the future. Performance is our driving metric.

Hello, lead engineer here. Just to clarify, you don't need a plugin to enable Edgemesh as a user. Everything is 100% browser compliant. Your webmaster adds our one line of code and our one javascript file you are done. Your users will never even see a pop up.