If people would support the site all the garbage would disappear for everyone. If a dollar for a byte is a bit too high, you could place a ceiling at $5000 - it would be around 100 bytes for a dollar.
It would be an alternative to ads. Ads are a padding plus unfairness and dishonesty. They also track you and run code on your machine. This would be just a padding.
A creator has to eat and people don't have to use his site. Those that like it and would want to make it even better can pay.
And don't forget that a first step was to create a _lean_ website. 200kB + 500kB padding would still be more than 2 times less then any website you mentioned. For this to work the website would have to prove from time to time how it would work without useless bytes. You could also serve less useless bytes.
However it could still work with added latency instead of bytes. Example: 50ms every 100kB.
It would be an alternative to ads. Ads are a padding plus unfairness and dishonesty. They also track you and run code on your machine. This would be just a padding.
A creator has to eat and people don't have to use his site. Those that like it and would want to make it even better can pay.
And don't forget that a first step was to create a _lean_ website. 200kB + 500kB padding would still be more than 2 times less then any website you mentioned. For this to work the website would have to prove from time to time how it would work without useless bytes. You could also serve less useless bytes.
However it could still work with added latency instead of bytes. Example: 50ms every 100kB.