Post #3473518

2026-06-21 19:06 UTC

Of course they will be problems if you expect the exact same experience as now. Why can’t a website send everything? Bandwidth really isn’t so much of an issue and neither is latency these days. If that means a website needs to be built leaner and with less stuff, so be it. I don’t see anything you mention as a real blocker.

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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-06-22 00:40

I think you underestimate how much bandwidth would be required for every single site and piece of web content to be sent in every single language, for every single request. (keep in mind this would also include ALL images with text in them, ALL captions and audio tracks for videos, and entire copies of video content if the contents itself has to be modified, such as on-screen images) Sites could be slimmer, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact it would be a problem very quickly. For example, a big problem is that if EVERYONE is using many times more bandwidth, the supply gets constrained for EVERYONE given there’s still a physical limit to how much data can flow through a cable (or internet exchange). And again, there’s still way more data that could be collected on you that would negate this fingerprinting prevention, even if it was feasible. If you choose to read a particular news site even once, boom, there’s your country or even state/city. Do we 100X bandwidth usage across the board, spend billions of dollars more every year in perpetuity to handle redundant bandwidth, pay more in server hosting costs to accommodate the extra usage, all just to eliminate ONE data point, or do we just pass some laws against using that data to fingerprint someone?

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