alt Hacker NewsNot only RAM. I've recently been thinking about how much better things could be if ISP had data limits again. No doomscrolling, no multigigabyte patches, less slop, less spyware, less datacenters, less clickbait. All those things would become less profitable when transfers are limited.
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The only one of those that would potentially disappear would be the 100 GB patches and games. Tiktok and Facebooks still works with 360p video, so doomscrolling would likely continue. Same goes for clickbait. The slop is what's being doomscrolled though in many cases, and all the slop that isn't in video form barely takes any bandwidth to begin with. Spyware doesn't take up much bandwidth, neither when first downloaded, nor during usage.
Yeah, and obesity would be solved if we had government-sanctioned food rations.
But I deeply dislike that solution. Personal responsibility beats authoritarive control in almost all cases.
I mean that would also massively blow
ISP limiting bandwidth would effectively be killer for streaming services like Netflix.