Reminds of PeerCDN acquired by Yahoo and built by same author, it used to work beautifully. https://web.archive.org/web/20150810065820/https://peercdn.c...

That is a great example of how all technological developments have an equal and opposite negative side.

Seems like ad blockers have a new field to look at. I was just thinking about what how people would feel about this when they’re on limited or metered bandwidth.

Sounds like an amazing browser feature to meter bandwidth.

Not only does it increase accessibility of the internet for low bandwidth users (they will use more if they know they won’t blow out their budget) but it will help shame the bloated websites with more user visibility into the issue

Seems like it needs a way for users to decide what they share so that we can just share the content and let the ads 404. Hell maybe we can even pay each other--both for the hosting and for the data work necessary to keep the malware (e.g. ads) out.