No deadline, but ideas have to be original, so first applications are the ones that count :)

Currently blocking 3g and 4g (all mobile devices in fact), and working to block satellite internet.

How are you doing that?

We block mobile phones with some similar rules to the ones in this web page http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-nginx-to-redirect-mo...

The plan is to recover unused cycles, and ask the websites who power the platform to add a link to the opt in/out

https://ss.crowdprocess.com/opt-out.html

Having said that, I am the first to admit that many websites aren't currently displaying this, we need to work on that.

It's extra work for website owners to build/test/maintain opt-out functionality. Have you considered offering a pre-built opt in/out widget which can be re-styled and integrated easily?

Or you could even just provide website owners with a "global opt-out" URL that they can stick in their footer.

This link is a global opt-out :)

We don't want anyone on the platform who isn't aware/comfortable with it. Our instructions to the websites (when they join) are to create a link to the opt out page. I supposed it could be a direct opt out

It seems one of the biggest business issues is site visitor perception. I have a couple questions please.

What's your opt-rate rate so far out of the sites that have shown this option?

do you have any real data regarding hidden cost to a site visitor? like power consumption A/B testing or something?

The opt out rate has been close to 0, but (in all fairness) that has been due to the way websites choose to display it.

A standard for how to display might be called for, perhaps?

What do you mean? Unused cycles makes no sense. I'd be really annoyed if my laptop's battery life drops from 5 hours browsing the web to 1hour because it is running at 100% all the time due to this.

It isn't as much a matter of ability to verify, but to enforce. Currently the platform is supplied by quite a few websites (over 100), and the best way to get them to adequately communicate this is through proper incentives.

The incentives must be: if you do not comply, your content won't be monetized (as would happen with ads).