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by xyzzy_plugh 1158 days ago
This isn't applicable to fast.com as it simply makes requests to Netflix's CDN from the frontend. Indistinguishable from regular Netflix traffic.
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Good point, although you could still do logic like only activating the throttle after the customer visits netflix.com. You can't distinguish the CDN traffic, but you can still tell what website is being viewed.

Incidentally, my speeds on fast.com are always terrible (about 1/8 of what I get elsewhere), despite the fact that I'm fairly confident it is not being throttled. That's because the speed I see is >100 Mbps, which is like 4 Netflix UHD streams. Wouldn't be much point in throttling to that speed, you'd want 10 Mbps max, and less on wireless.

then you might miss embedded clients, right?