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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by esotericn on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:19AM (#20695196)
This sounds like an opportunity for some sort of crazy Facebook-VPN. Can you encode data in facebook posts and tunnel over it?
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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by throwaway8941 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:33AM (#20695347)
I don't know about Facebook, but I use vk.com to share video files (~100 GiB/month) with a friend who only has access to a mobile plan with 10 GiB data per month and unlimited data to a few social networks.

I put a directory into a multi-volume .7z archive (sliced into 200 MiB chunks, their per-file limit), upload the chunks through their API (solving a simple captcha every 5-10 GiB), and that's it.

I believe I've read about people in Philippines (?) using Facebook for sharing files using a similar process.

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