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Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background (9to5google.com)
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[-] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yeh, exactly. "You have the ip to work with"

one.one.one.one isnt an http/ request, its a dns lookup.
If it was an http/s request to 1.1.1.1 then it could be blocked. Also, super cheap/easy to proxy

this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2026
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