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darkpuma on July 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How can phone companies detect tethering?

They can, but is it as common in practice? (I earnestly don't know.)

Wowfunhappy on July 18, 2019 [–]

Every VPN provider I'm aware of offers either a mobile app or set up instructions for Android and iOS. So while that doesn't really answer your question, I suspect there's a non-insignificant number of mobile VPN users.

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