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How can they do this if video is served over an encrypted connection they’re not in direct control of? Do they just limit throughput to a bit rate that would b
by jrmg 8y ago
How can they do this if video is served over an encrypted connection they’re not in direct control of?
Do they just limit throughput to a bit rate that would be likely to cause a streaming service to drop to 480p?
- geoah 8y agoI had the same question. They specifically talk just about video, so I'm not sure how they could limit anything over ssl/tls. Even if they ask google/netflix/etc to limit the quality for their ips, whitelisting the ones who paid are gonna be annoying or very complicated to let the content providers know. I remember some ISPs adding headers on HTTP requests to identity users across sites, but again that wouldn't work for encrypted sites.
- Rjevski 8y agoPresumably they try to figure out the IPs of popular video content providers & their CDNs and throttle the bandwidth to them.
- rbanffy 8y agoThey could just throttle total bandwidth by source IP and leave any excess throttling to be dealt with by customer support.