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They typically don't count traffic within their network towards the data cap (e.g. streaming Xfinity TV), so I don't think it is safe to make an assumption abou
by WillPostForFood 7y ago
They typically don't count traffic within their network towards the data cap (e.g. streaming Xfinity TV), so I don't think it is safe to make an assumption about the banner one way or another.
- grepsedawk 7y agoIt's delivered alongside the webpage so there's no technical way to split the data logically... Unless they're using "rough math".
- diminoten 7y agoYes there is, it has to come from somewhere, and we know it's not coming from the actual site being visited...
- Havoc 7y ago>it has to come from somewhere Very much doubt they count their traffic by adding up all the origin addresses contributions individually
- diminoten 7y agoYeah, I doubt any of it counts at all, and honestly this is the least compelling part of this argument... It's kb vs. 100GB, hardly matters.
- grepsedawk 7y agoNope... The packets need to be sealed back together, at that point the data is denormalized and you can't measure how much it "actually" counted.
- diminoten 7y agoYes? You can see how much you added, the size before and the size after. This is not a technical impossiblity, I'm sorry if you're invested emotionally in it being impossible.
- tedunangst 7y agoHuh? I happen to run my own intercepting proxy which rewrites HTML pages, and if I wanted to, I could easily track exactly how many bytes came in and how many bytes went out.
- cortesoft 7y agoWhat? They just have to measure bandwidth from the other side of whatever is modifying the content.