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by paxys 1341 days ago
Serving a giant file is going to affect their servers more than the end device. If they could identify the user agent it would be a lot easier to just block it entirely.
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Could be done with a gzip bomb.
Or a brotli bomb, for far greater expansion!
And a terrible idea because the users are not at fault, but the developers of the app. And in this case it might crash so they'd only report "app crashes on startup", if at all.