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I noticed that when I hit my tethering cap, and start seeing an upsell page, my Linux vms can still access content like normal. Seems that they do all of their
by mrrrgn 11y ago
I noticed that when I hit my tethering cap, and start seeing an upsell page, my Linux vms can still access content like normal. Seems that they do all of their fancy tracking via user agent strings and consider Linux browsers as being smart phones.
If true, it means that Linux users might end up getting accused of being ToS breaking "hackers." Beware.
- iotku 11y agoI wouldn't be surprised if how these "Hackers" were getting around the data limits was far from sophisticated. I've ended up getting around somewhat similar restrictions accidentally due to poor implementations.