Browser extensions are widely used, but developers still face limited options for monetization. Mellowtel recently introduced a new approach: bandwidth-as-a-service. By embedding its SDK, developers earn revenue from opted-in users who share idle bandwidth to fetch web data for AI labs and startups. We combine large-sc...
H. Jang, Ayush Pandey, Matteo Varvello et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 ACM...· 0 citations
JavaScript (JS) bloat is a major source of slow, data-inefficient web performance, as many sites ship large monolithic bundles with substantial unused code. Existing JS dead-code elimination techniques help but require server-side support and are therefore hard to deploy. This paper evaluates HTTP range requests as a c...
Ayush Pandey, Vladimir Sharkovski, Matteo Varvello et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 ACM...· 0 citations
Over a quarter of the global population remains without access to the Internet in 2026, primarily due to cost and limited infrastructure in developing regions. This gap is becoming more consequential as access to information increasingly depends on AI systems that presume reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity. In respo...
Ayush Pandey, Rohail Asim, J. L. Fendji et al.· Conference on Applications,...· 0 citations
Did people stop asking other people for advice online once generative AI could answer their questions? Prior work on ChatGPT's effect on online help-seeking disagrees in both size and sign, in part because no study has compared affected communities against similar communities that AI cannot easily substitute for, over...
Venue prestige and citation counts are two widely used, albeit imperfect, signals of research quality. When the two signals conflict, evaluators must decide how much weight to assign each. Yet, it remains unknown how researchers across disciplines trade off these two signals when evaluating research outcome. To fill th...
Fengyuan Michael Liu, Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki et al.· 0 citations
The results suggest that decision models are useful as a first step in the annotation pipeline: routing low-confidence items to an LLM matches or exceeds the LLM alone at a quarter to half of its cost.
Prediction-market probabilities increasingly appear in news coverage, yet little is known about which market movements become news or how much trading money sits behind the numbers journalists quote. Unlike a poll, a market price can be moved by anyone willing to trade, so the cost of manufacturing a number that circul...
An audit of AI provider recommendations in four registry-backed service domains across the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas finds whether an AI referral is trustworthy depends strongly on its retrieval configuration rather than on the underlying model alone, yet an answer produced without retrieval often carries no...
Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki· 0 citations
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