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Yes, the days of yore where there was no HTTPS - and, unsurprisingly, Comcast still is able to inject code into the page letting me know that i'm at 90% of my 1TB data cap.

To clarify, they have Heroku set up with no HTTPS but only because they aren't paying them $20/month (!!)

https://elements.heroku.com/addons/ssl

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Having data caps qualifies solidly as the days of yore for me, as much as not having HTTPS. Are there really areas in the United States that still have them? The only capped plans I'm aware of are satellite or mobile broadband, and that's for folks who live in rural areas.

They have switched from hard caps to soft caps. Your unlimited plan isn't really unlimited. It's all in the microprint, but after enough bandwidth is used, there will be repercussions (varies depending on provider).

You're right that the terms and conditions say there is a "fair usage" limit that may result in warnings from my ISP, which seems to be around 1 TB. However it looks to be largely unenforced, which is fortunate as with a gigabit connection you'd blow through it in about two hours.

Still very common in Canada. Unlimited plans exist, but are expensive.

Rural Netizen here. I can confirm that caps are very, very real. Even with more recent plans, the cap is still only 250GB. The same applies to AT&T's "Fixed Wireless" service, iirc. I'm not sure though which category that falls under since it's neither cellular, mobile, or satellite.

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