What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • Presi300
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    269 months ago

    How do they even know if you use your data as a hotspot? That’s just ridiculous!

    • Flying SquidOP
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      219 months ago

      Makes you wonder what else they know about what you’re doing online.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          59 months ago

          He wrote that 5 years ago (admittedly I have yet to read it), so who knows what they’ve been able to do since then than he hadn’t even thought of.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              29 months ago

              Oh I’m sure it’s still relevant, I’m saying things have probably gotten even worse.

                • Flying SquidOP
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                  29 months ago

                  It can always get worse. Any time someone says it can’t get any worse, it does.

                  I was told abortion restrictions couldn’t get any worse too. Then they started removing rape exceptions.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 months ago

      Probably local/system services on the app when the SIM is activated (like it’s with sim locked phones)

      • @[email protected]
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        239 months ago

        Nope, it’s either inspecting the TTL of packets coming from your phone (unless you have a VERY custom setup, the TTL from devices other than your phone will be very different), or it’s deep packet inspection. I tried to trick t-mobile last year into giving me home internet on a phone sim, so I did a whack ton of research.

          • @iliketurtles
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            29 months ago

            On US Mobile (Verizon) using a VPN on my phone when tethering seems to bypass detection. At least the meter on the dashboard says I’ve used 0gb hotspot.

    • @UckyBon
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      59 months ago

      Monitoring DNS requests to their own servers.

    • @[email protected]
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      09 months ago

      They look at the TTL of the incoming packets. This can be modified in the windows registry.