[landl0rd]

This fixes indians in boilerrooms and nigerian spam emailers but specifically not ticket scalpers. The profit is too large.

Also because users don't actually control the number of HTTP requests they make. Think of sites that load individual icons rather than sprite sheets. Think of sites that fire off 1,000 tracking calls per minute. So respectfully screw that.

[const_cast]

Maybe if we do this then those sites will be disincentivized from doing all the tracking. Because consumer's will get their bill, say "what the fuck", and go to a competitor.

[landl0rd]

You're attributing to avg consumer a much higher degree of both tech-savviness and market power than is realistic.

[const_cast]

Consumers should learn tech-savviness and I don't think I'm attributing too much.

Phone bills used to be really complicated with minutes and long distance and cross country. And consumers learned and adjusted their behaviors to reduce their bills.

Consumers are stupid but not that stupid.

[LadyCailin]

That didn’t work at all for cookie banners. People just accept enshittification when it’s just a minor inconvenience. $0.00001 http requests would solidly fall into that category, and then it would just be marginally worse across the board.

[const_cast]

Nobody is paying for a cookie banner. Also the cookie banners aren't even required on almost all the sites you see them on - they chose to put those there because they're lazy.