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Re:Netflix now supports TLS 1.3 by throwaway287391 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:55AM (#22934087)
Fast.com probably helps quite a bit. If ISPs throttle Netflix' traffic their fast.com measurements will look bad and customers will complain/sue. (AFAIK there's no way to distinguish between fast.com tests and actual Netflix video consumption since the former's traffic patterns are identical(?) to a Netflix video streaming client's.)

Creating fast.com always seemed like a pretty brilliant move by Netflix to me.

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Re:Netflix now supports TLS 1.3 by Tijdreiziger on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:13AM (#22934193)
I think that was the whole point of fast.com, right? Speeds to known 'speedtest' servers were manipulated by ISPs, and this was bad for Netflix's business because customers would ostensibly have good speeds yet have slow Netflix, so fast.com was created as a way to measure the 'real' speed to Netflix's servers.
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Re:Netflix now supports TLS 1.3 by throwaway287391 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:26PM (#22936432)
Yeah, that's what I was saying (or at least trying to say).
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Re:Netflix now supports TLS 1.3 by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:58AM (#22934103)
Good point. Smaller players can't make the same move though.
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