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

  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    There are a ton of methods carriers use to detect hotspot traffic, from the device itself handling the categorization, to TTL values attached to requests, to other very clever network sniffing strategies.

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      7 months ago

      Every method I’ve encountered in the past was thwarted by a good ole VPN. This was all on unlocked or rooted phones though so YMMV work carrier phones.