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In Reply to: RE: The MP3 is finally dead posted by Mr_Steady on May 17, 2017 at 06:57:04
I'll just add that the elephant in the room is advertising. Advertising on the Internet - especially video clips, along with data collection, consume a large portion of the bandwidth for the average user. In professional environments/applications, it's not such a big deal, since they're not "surfing" sites with advertising, but for the millions and millions and millions of home users around the world, it's a big deal and affects their effective connection performance. There's currently a "race" to build faster (so-called "5G") networks and gigabit-per-second speeds. This is largely due to video uploading/downloading/streaming, but also to facilitate even more sophisticated and pervasive video advertising.
I remember back in the mid-nineties, when it became clear that the Internet would develop as a "free" service driven by advertising, with only a small monthly access fee. Here we are.
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I'm probably the only person on this site who doesn't use AdBlock, but that is about to change.
On the home computer it doesn't bother me so much, but the pop up video ads on my cellphone do, and I think they use up my data allowance, which is probably their real function in the first place. Somehow in the span of a couple of months my data usage went from almost nothing to being the same as my niece who streams music. Nothing else about my net surfing changed.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
"and I think they use up my data allowance, which is probably their real function in the first place"
Actually I think they are buying influence. I remember someone getting killed due to a mistake on the power company's part and all the sudden you saw ads for the electric company splattered across all the news shows in town. In most places around here they had/have a monopoly. Why should they spend the money on ads ? Those TV ads are very expensive.
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