Show HN: Scientists hate him – we built a 10x cheaper CDN with 500k PoPs

I suspect that sites trying to do this sort of thing might quickly find themselves at the top of hostile domain lists as similarly happened to all those sites that embedded crypto miners a couple years ago. At the very least the scripts will soon be in the blocklists for ad blocker extensions if they’re not already.

It’s cool tech, I’m sure, but using visitors’ resources for the site’s own benefit like this will probably not go over well in the long term.

Very cool. How are you doing the peer-to-peer browser connections? WebRTC?

Wasn't another YC company trying to do this, and was generally met with harsh feedback? (peer5).

p2p isn't bad - looking at peertube, or torrents, etc.

It's forced p2p to make a commercial entity some bucks that is significantly problematic. Browsers are user agents, and should not become commercial agents.

Action item for browser vendors: make webRTC request a user initiated action (like microphone/video access)

There is already cheaper CDN's than this out there. Advanced Hosting has a cdn at $0.0025 / gb that has surved me well the last 6 months.

> Scientists hate him

What is this all about?

I see nothing about battery life impact. Has that even been measured?