Re: Even Epic Knows Their Client Sucks

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 16/06/2025 20:02, Xocyll wrote:

The entitled desire of some to justify their "free lunch" is staggering.
Same goes for piracy and illegal mass distribution of copyrighted works.
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Other services*do* offer a sharing option. It's often a little bit more
money. That's how it works. That Valve does it for free is a blessing.

Goes both ways though.
When Netflix started, they did not segregate by country, then suddenly
Canadian subscribers could no longer access the main servers, but
instead a Canadian Netflix containing about 2/3rds of the content, for
the same subscription.

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I kinda agree as you signed up for one thing but ended up with another.
Where I kinda of disagree is that with Netflix you can just cancel when
ever you want.
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Where I think it becomes really problematic is for long term
subscriptions. Where's the line as to when you're not getting the
service you paid for. I think is was Virgin (cable TV) in the UK that
caused a bit of a stink when the announced that a few channels were
going to be removed. There were quite a few people that, rightly in my
opinion, pointed out they wouldn't have subscribed in the first place
without them.
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Virgin also ended up backing down as I presume they realised that peeing
customers, current or future, off is not a good thing to do and that's
especially true now social media is all the rage. The also quickly
backed down after they introduced traffic shaping in peak hours have
advertised it as unlimited downloads. What's the point of paying for a
fast connection if you download a game and that connection is crippled
before the download is even finished.

Over here in socialist Canuckistan, they excuse that kind of thing by
saying that "unlimited" means a "reasonable amount."

The good news (and I tested) is that a VPN stops the shaping since they
cannot tell what you are doing.

The ISPs rational is that they oversell their capacity (like airlines,)
because most people don't use that much and don't stay online long
except for streaming services and maybe online gaming, so they
prioritize streaming and gaming and basic browsing and downloads get
throttled to compensate.

They don't seem to realize (or care,) that downloads from many sites
will fail because you are taking too long and tying up one of their
download slots.

But as I said before, a VPN stops the ISP from being able to tell
gaming/streaming from downloads/basic browsing, so they don't throttle
you.

Used to keep one about that I only used when downloading drivers, GoG
games and such.

Xocyll
--
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