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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by scrollaway on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:39PM (#17209286)
Blizzard games no longer use BitTorrent but a proprietary http-based protocol called ngdp. BitTorrent was causing a lot of issues with firewalls so users were disabling it, so they had added http mirrors to them... And then CDNs became a thing, the rest is history.

I'll be happy to give more details on ngdp if you are curious.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by sametmax on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:06PM (#17209607)
Please.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by scrollaway on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:08PM (#17211292)
Here, I pulled my docs for ya:

https://gist.github.com/jleclanche/91f2f5c0f2042a81db1c61464...

They basically created their own git protocol + virtual filesystem, optimized for asset patches inside large compressed binary files. I wish they'd open source it.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by exikyut on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:47AM (#17212945)
That was interesting to poke through.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140257

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