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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by cdancette on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:50AM (#15905204)
You don't get your point, throttling a p2p browser is neither an example of whitelisting or blacklisting, you can't infer that from a single example. For me it sounds more like blacklisting
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by gnode on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:02AM (#15905290)
If white-listing is employed, everyone not on the white-list is throttled. As peer-to-peer distributed applications typically connect with other users of the application they need only not be included in the white-list to stifle the performance of p2p applications.

ISPs could easily provide you a high speed to Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube's IP ranges. and limit it to 10kbps otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by zaarn on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:11AM (#15905328)
Blacklisting is complicated because the web is large. The blacklist would quickly approach gigantic sizes and slow down internet while the ISP is scanning requests.

On the other hand, a whitelist can be much shorter (Facebook, Youtube, Google, that's maybe 50 entries including the CDNs) and simpler (don't pay? not in it.)

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