Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Web page settings to save battery (#546)

Hi, @kenchris and I took a look at this during the TAG's virtual F2F this week.

It's not clear to me that there's much value in an explicit opt-in from a site for throttling. Most sites won't adopt, so user agents which engage in throttling are going to do so regardless of whether or not the site opts in. Maybe the idea is that, after a site opts in, the user agent could tell the site that it's being throttled in various ways, but it's unclear what the site could then be expected to usefuly do in that scenario. In the `if (throttled) then { ... } else { ... }` case, it seems authors are just as likely to make things worse in the then clause, since there's a lot of misinformation out there about how to optimize sites. So then user agents would stop sending the signal.

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