The only way you could counteract this and not go to an advertising model is to charge for everything. Text included. That however considering the costs of bandwidth and storage, would have the effect of pricing people offline.
We already have a precedent for that in the 1980s. PRESTEL. Charged a one off fee for initial access, monthly fee for access, also had surge pricing for peak times per minute and many services charged per page accessed. It only got 90,000 customers at its peak. Treat consumers like a cash cow and assume they have infinite cash for your bandwidth and storage and they vote with their wallets.
The only affordable option at that point would be to touch grass!
The only way you could counteract this and not go to an advertising model is to charge for everything. Text included. That however considering the costs of bandwidth and storage, would have the effect of pricing people offline.
We already have a precedent for that in the 1980s. PRESTEL. Charged a one off fee for initial access, monthly fee for access, also had surge pricing for peak times per minute and many services charged per page accessed. It only got 90,000 customers at its peak. Treat consumers like a cash cow and assume they have infinite cash for your bandwidth and storage and they vote with their wallets.
The only affordable option at that point would be to touch grass!