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

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    How do they know if the source of data is hotspot? I’d imagine there is a way to stop your phone grassing on you.

    • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Back when they just began recognizing it, they noted peculiar traffic. Desktop websites, batch downloads normally unavailable to that system. This assumes that you utilized the internal hotspot system and didn’t create a separate one. Now? Not sure whether their system is more robust but it should, theoretically, be possible to obfuscate your traffic using third party hotspot software. No clue where to look for that anymore.

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        9 months ago

        I used to routinely use 100gb of data on my jailbroken sprint iPhone. Did that for almost 3 years. Never heard a peep from them. But this was forever ago.

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          9 months ago

          If you used the package I think you did, that’s not unusual. Absolutely will not remember the name but there were numerous tweaks that just flipped the hotspot switch but a couple that allowed you to use a hotspot without directly using the inbuilt function. One was free and broadly used.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          9 months ago

          That was great, and you didn’t have to pay some extra tethering fee every month either (or something like that, it was so long ago for me).

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      If you root your phone and install a custom rom, you can get around it and they can’t tell.

      If you’re factory, it sends that hotspot info to them.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          9 months ago

          Maybe, but it’s not worth it just for a few days, which is all I’ll need it for. I just forked over $15 for another 10 gb.

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            9 months ago

            It’s worth it for more than a few days, custom ROMs ftw.

            Personally my minimum features are:

            • Long press back button to force close and kill an app.
            • Call recording.

            All the other stuff and customisation is just tasty gravy.

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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            9 months ago

            negotiate. i called my last carrier from my new carriers retail store front. they practically begged me to stay and said they’d give me everything i asked for.