The general problem of sites abusing the bandwidth of their visitors isn't solvable, but I suppose the idea here is that P2P CDNs might create an incentive for them to do so?

Are there any examples of this actually happening? There isn't much to do for blacklisting such sites if we don't know of any behaving in this way.

juberti@: Do you know if any thought has been given to bandwidth constraints for WebRTC over expensive network connections?

"The general problem of sites abusing the bandwidth of their visitors isn't solvable, but I suppose the idea here is that P2P CDNs might create an incentive for them to do so?"

That's right.

"Are there any examples of this actually happening?"

Not that I'm aware of.

It isn't clear to me that there is anything reasonable that we can do about this but I am assigning it to get feedback from someone on WebRTC.

It's not clear what the incentive is for the news site to start chewing up bandwidth. They would be taking a significant reputation risk by doing so.

However, we have undertaken the work to better understand what type of network we are on, so if we want to start looking at how common P2P CDN usage is on cell networks, that's something we could investigate.

Hi. There's nothing secret about this report, right? I'm assuming that's the case, but decided it would be polite to get confirmation :-)

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This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

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