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Disagree. Paying per byte is a critical part of making people realize they are part of botnets and to create the only incentives that have a shot at working naturally like pressure against poorly secured smart devices. Unlimited bandwidth just forces everyone behind Cloudflare and breaks the internet.


Pay per byte is a fleecing scheme, nothing more. You already pay more for more bandwidth. ISPs get more than enough doing that without any monthly data caps.


It’s an extortion scheme.


Oh so if I use a gig, I only pay for a gig? That doesn’t sound like a date cap, that sounds like a going rate for data. They still charge you for all the data you never consumed, which makes no sense as a transaction.




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