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bee_rider 11 hours ago

It is too bad we don’t have a convention already for the internet:

User/crawler: I’d like site

Server: ok that’ll be $.02 for me to generate it and you’ll have to pay $.01 in bandwidth costs, plus whatever your provider charges you

User: What? Obviously as a human I don’t consume websites so fast that $.03 will matter to me, sure, add it to my cable bill.

Crawler: Oh no, I’m out of money, (business model collapse).

jmholla 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that's a terrible idea, especially with ISP monopolies that love gouging their customers. They have a demonstrable history of markups well beyond their means.

And I hope you're pricing this highly. I don't know about you, but I would absolutely notice $.03 a site on my bill, just from my human browsing.

In fact, I feel like this strategy would further put the Internet in the hands of the aggregators as that's the one site you know you can get information from, so long term that cost becomes a rounding error for them as people are funneled to their AI as their memberships are cheaper than accessing the rest of the web.