• deadbeef@lemmy.nz
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    7 months ago

    There’s no way of knowing what happened there.

    But back in the mid to late 2000’s we had a whole bunch of residential internet customers and every so often one would blow their traffic cap by a bunch and would ring up and say “Your billing system is wrong!”.

    Then whoever could be bothered in the office would do some modest analysis on their netflow data and come up with something like "18% of your traffic this month was redtube.com, 33% was pornhub.com and 9% was xhamster.com.

    We never knew if whoever was on the phone was the raging porn addict or it was one of their associates. Either way they would say “Oh well, I guess we will never know then. Thanks for your help. Bye.”. Followed by them quietly paying the bill.

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        7 months ago

        Yep, any time you have a traffic cap or bill for traffic you’ve got to have data to back up what you are billing for.

        More recently CDN’s ( and widespread SSL adoption ) have made it a whole lot less obvious what sites the user is going to. I suspect that nice clearcut list of porn sites from 2007 would just look like some cloudflare, akamai and google these days.

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    7 months ago
    1. This joke is old and tired. Stop making it.

    2. That bloke looks like he doesn’t even know HOW to order porn over the TV.

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    7 months ago

    Adult films??? Oh my, how scandalous!!

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    7 months ago

    I tend to always give the underdog the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

    Remember when a lady suffered third degree burns from coffee at a McDonalds drive through? Everybody made fun of her but she was right, she won in court, and McDonalds had to retrain staff and change how equipment was operated at every single location.

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      7 months ago

      And she didn’t even ask for the massive compensations she eventually got, she only asked McD to cover the medical expenses, as she had to spent a fair amount of time in a hospital because of the burned crotch she had.

      Not unreasonable by a mile, but after that case, corporations have tried making pretty much all lawsuits against them seem completely ridiculous. I wonder why…

      That said the dude in the photo does look guilty af.

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        7 months ago

        Third degree burned crotch too. It wasn’t just a little too hot and she got a little burn. It was extensive.

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          7 months ago

          Melted labia. They gave her so much money because of course they did, the lady’s labia melted and McDonald’s had been warned before

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      7 months ago

      She wasn’t right but she did win in court.

      She spilled on herself. Her own fault.
      You’ll never change my mind.

      Idc about mcds. Stupid is stupid. Her action her consequences.