The model of the web host paying for all bandwidth was somewhat aligned with traditional usage models, but the wave of scrapping for training data is disrupting this logic.
I remember reading, about 10 years ago?, of how backend website communications (ads and demographic data sharing) had surpassed the bandwidth consumed by actual users. But even in this case, the traffic was still primarily linked to the website hosts.
Whereas with the recent scrapping frenzy the traffic is purely client side, and not initiated by actual website users, and not particularly beneficial to the website host.
One has to wonder what percentage of web traffic now is generated by actual users, versus host backend data sharing, and the mammoth new wave of scrapping.
The model of the web host paying for all bandwidth was somewhat aligned with traditional usage models, but the wave of scrapping for training data is disrupting this logic.
I remember reading, about 10 years ago?, of how backend website communications (ads and demographic data sharing) had surpassed the bandwidth consumed by actual users. But even in this case, the traffic was still primarily linked to the website hosts.
Whereas with the recent scrapping frenzy the traffic is purely client side, and not initiated by actual website users, and not particularly beneficial to the website host.
One has to wonder what percentage of web traffic now is generated by actual users, versus host backend data sharing, and the mammoth new wave of scrapping.