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Serving a giant file is going to affect their servers more than the end device. If they could identify the user agent it would be a lot easier to just block it entirely.

Could be done with a gzip bomb.

Or a brotli bomb, for far greater expansion!

And a terrible idea because the users are not at fault, but the developers of the app. And in this case it might crash so they'd only report "app crashes on startup", if at all.

Then the browser could just pretend it is Chrome (if it isn't already) and that would easily work around your solution.

I think something like this would be best served by moving to IPFS or Bittorrent. A magnet link could be provided and then browsers and plugins could use that to download the file. That way, you can distribute the load.

Just a separate rules file that blocks .in and other popular domains for India will probably work just as well.

No, a file with a single line: “11) You should not download the list by every start” is enough