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This is very technical but if your ISP has unmetered Netflix or Spotify you could have a VPN on a server that spoofs the hostname (easier) or IP (harder) which only works for downloading and i imagine using >50GB of data to Spotify might make the ISP ask some questions. Netflix would be easier since 4k movies are a thing
You got downvoted, but some researchers discovered this works on some cellphone networks. They only look at what the site calls itself and not what the site actually is.
not just researchers, i used this all the time back when data was much more costly and i had only 3 gigs a month, but they patched it after a couple years
basically when i was out of data a page from the isp's website would pop up saying "Buy more data", and that's all i needed to spoof
That's actually a decent idea. I'm looking at another solution but that might actually help me mask another project that will use very little data. Thanks