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by jiggawatts 1724 days ago
No, they are not "pushing" data.

Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.

Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.

I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.

I pull YouTube videos.

YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.

Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers.