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Comment by KorematsuFred | Hacker News Reader

While it is cheapest there are many shady things that are going on. For example both Jio and BSNL automatically throttle your speed for porn and many other websites. BSNL outright bans the porn websites.

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You forgot to mention the fact that BSNL injects malware and ads. And outrageously, they claim it is a feature! The way they do it by injecting javascript into your page that then does shitty pop-up scam ads (including ones that increase page counts for some pretty big e-com sites). Some of the pop-up/under ads then install malware of their own.

The entire company is run by morons.

Yes, can attest to that. I had a BSNL connection, which would always inject some JavaScript/etc stuff for Http sites. With HTTPS sites they could not do anything. But I got rid of the connection anyway.

Simple Google DNS servers or things like that easily circumvent those restrictions, at least on AirTel & Jio. BSNL is always I have seen as follower of other companies in prices & policies.

That is what I do but common folks have no idea what DNS is.

Another thing Reliance has done with me in past is to sell my billing data to a fake debt collection agency.

Throttling speed for porn isn't a bad thing. Porn is a waste of time and energy!

In that case, they must declare that they are going to throttle the speed.

But that is poor logic. My guess is 90% internet surfing is waste of time and energy. So..

Porn is banned on Jio mobile network (though due to court order).

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