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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by federico_c on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:06AM (#24639484)
The amount of unused computing and storage on personal devices is staggering.

Yet HN never misses the opportunity to dogpile on anyone who points this out: data trasfer costs, battery usage, jokes about the Silicon Valley sitcom.

As if most phones weren't connected to wifi and power for 10+ hours a day.

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Re:The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website by ev1 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:12PM (#24643252)
Someone still needs to pay for the data transfer costs ala ngrok.

I don't know of a single US mobile network that provides publicly addressable IP space, v4 or v6, it's all behind more than one layer of NAT.

AT&T doesn't even allow direct internet access, every single connection goes through their horrendously bad transparent proxy that breaks TLS 1.3, breaks ESNI, causes a SSL_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG connection reset if you negotiate only modern ciphers, and sits in the middle of every connection to prevent things like obfsproxy.

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