The article touches on that. VPN traffic is itself a small category, so even if we assume all VPN traffic is torrenting, that doesn’t push it very far up the charts.
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It also might appear lower due to people using vpns for for torrenting on residential networks
The article touches on that. VPN traffic is itself a small category, so even if we assume all VPN traffic is torrenting, that doesn’t push it very far up the charts.
Sandvine uses pattern recognition primarily. VPN doesn’t matter. It still gets categorized correctly.