…versus the 1-2GB of incoming traffic.

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    Nah, they likely see that all over the place with infected devices throughout people’s homes acting as bot farms.

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      Lol I didn’t even consider that. But you’re right. You mean like less tech savvy people who installed “m4lware remover x3000” and became part of a DDoS attack?

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      and usually, the way non-tech people solve a problem like this is to just throw money at it … money like in buying a higher tier internet package because their internet was too slow.

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        They literally do this. I once did tech support in this situation where this other guy was already doing it. Old lady ran out of data because the freakin sudoku app displayed too many ads. He made her buy a bigger plan like wtf, SUDOKU there are like 20 apps on f-droid

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        There are a lot of crappy routers out there that don’t even give you a way to monitor how much bandwidth each device is using.