Where does all the money from the bloated tuition costs end up? Is it the university endowments? Why not tax that, and return money to the students? Why does the rest of society have to pay for it?
But is it really necesary to use the such a bloated piece of software as a web browser? i think it would be better to discard the whole web and replace it with the gemini protocol.
It can do 99.99% of what you use the web for with less resource usage. you can implement your own gemini client in 100 lines of code.
For the remainder 0.01% of stuff, use a dedicated application. Dont trust it? Use it with docker or similar.
As far as Im concerned all the browser bloat is worse than useless. Much of it is just to spy on you. Im sure these dedicated spying apps, you call web browsers, are deliberately full of security holes so they can upload your data to their servers
Hammer2 might be more suitable to storing billions of files efficiently: it supports online and batched deduplication, snapshots, directory entry indexing, multiple mountable filesystem roots, mountable snapshots, a low memory footprint, compression, encryption, zero-detection, data and metadata checksumming, and synchronization to other filesystems or nodes.