This was my first job out of grad school and involved lots of: My job was to take that data and analyze it for throttling patterns.
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In order to prove this, the company I worked for went out and hired people to get cable modem subscriptions for Company X, install desktop that were locked down so the people couldn't use the desktops themselves and then collected ping and HTTP request data for months. It makes DoH/DoT almost pointless.īack in the early 2000's, I worked for a small company that was hired by the law firm representing one of the big cable companies (let's call them Company A).Ĭompany A was suing another big cable company (Company X) b/c A claimed that X was throttling customers without telling them and advertising what were in effect unthrottled bandwidth numbers. It's such a gaping hole in web privacy that you can still passively snoop domain names sent in cleartext. It's crazy to me that the many people who care about privacy and censorship in tech haven't pushed ECH (encrypted ClientHello) harder. You don't need to do packet inspection on every packet, just ones that you might be interested in (e.g. So your filter chain just looks like -> -> unthrottle. Maybe 10 years ago hardware wouldn't have been able to do this, but I bet it's no big deal now. I figured it would be harder, or perform worse, but I easily wrote a little piece of software that filters the TLS ClientHello for arbitrary domains. It is really trivial to do basic traffic snooping and see what people are looking at. > Since is a Netflix ip, and the isp can’t distinguish whether it’s video that is being transferred or a file to measure throughout, If it'll take 2 years before I re-watch something, it's a waste of time and money to keep a backlog of multiple disks worth of video Whether something is streamed or stored local, it has to be downloaded the first time it's watched. It hadn't occurred to me until recently, but the way I watch stuff has me going through a pretty large amount of data yet I'm also excessively unlikely I re-watch nearly anything that I've seen in the previous 2 years. People that have things they regularly re-watch are obviously gonna benefit from having a local copy they can access entirely on their own terms. Thinking about it, it seems like watching habits could make streaming be more or less "efficient" compared to downloading once and storing it locally (depends on how one chooses to calculate efficiency tbh).
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However, the "efficiency be damned, just make it fasterer" attitude towards bandwidth is, if not the biggest, then definitely among the biggest, drivers behind the ever increasing internet throughput. I've always disliked how wasteful streaming is in respect bandwidth consumption.
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