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by alteria 2195 days ago
They must massively oversubscribe their services, far beyond ISPs. The advertising probably brings in a lot of profitable users who aren't pushing tons of BitTorrent traffic as well. With the insanely high affiliate commission they're offering I can't think of another way.
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The conspiratorial side of me says that they have alternate revenue streams as well. Why should only google get that sweet cash from a steady stream of user data?