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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] 110 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Over promise and under deliver, the musk way. Fucking clown ass Nazi piece of shit. I know there’s not a lot of viable alternatives, but if you’re using a Nazi service, I lack sympathy when the Nazi raises your prices.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Meanwhile the airlines rolling out "free Starlink WiFi" without so much as an asterix about who provides and controls the bits you're sending through it.

    Imagine how much data musk will be able to glean getting free access to travelers internet habits and probably a lot more.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I think most of the data going to and from your phone is gonna be https, I doubt it would provide much value tbh

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately there's still plenty of unencrypted traffic from normal usage (e.g. DoH is still fairly rare).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I mean, I guess you can get a list of domain names accessed, but accessible data is still quite limited imo.

    Don't get me wrong, I'd rather avoid it entirely or use a VPN if I'm on such a network if I must.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Some places have to use starlink sadly, like the ones in remote zones and islands in the middle of the ocean

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Geo makes more sense for theses use cases. Yes you'll have more ping. But for data dumps it matters not.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What makes sense is the quality of service offered at the price point. There's a reason why Starlink outcompeted Hughes so badly.

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