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rapfaria
8y ago
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Does it seriously download a 129MB file just by opening the page?
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CyberDildonics
8y ago
Ha yeah. Everyone pointed that out the first time this came up and I guess he ignored the feedback.
QasimK
8y ago
I actually find it seriously impressive. It demonstrates it works for you
right now
, and it works seamlessly!
yjftsjthsd-h
8y ago
It
is
impressive, and in a sense it's a very... effective... demo. The problem is that not all of us are in a position to spend that much bandwidth by accident.
mook
8y ago
It's impressive, but it doesn't necessarily actually download the file from webtorrent peers. It will happily do HTTP streaming, instead.
It works fine for me even though my browser is configured to block third party traffic by default.
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agumonkey
8y ago
chunk by chunk, and it's kinda the purpose, maybe they should have a "ready ? go" button ..
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