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
fun fact, paid chatgpt (yes i have sinned, i pay for it) has a wolfram plugin so a badly worded question gets worded better by chatgpt and then forwarded to wolfram
welp, turns out i was wrong, thanks for the heads up
after some fiddling, i found that the voice recorder app i used to test where the microphone was only utilized the top microphone, while calls and voice messages (at least on signal) use the bottom one
google pixel 6 pro user here, nope, at the top, because fuck the consumers, that’s why
on a more serious note, normally it doesnt pick up too much external audio but if i’m in a crowded place i have to turn it upside down and back up constantly to speak and then hear
wow! i have to admit i often leech from public trackers since my vpn doesn’t support port forwarding anymore (mullvad) so i didn’t really know of the setup to get a good ratio, only the downloading part. I’ll have to look into it. by the way, do you use a vpn with port forwarding or just use trusted private trackers?