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asdfoster  ·  3170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scientists unveil high-speed anonymity network for the entire Internet

If the remote machine has a wider pipe, it could download things, compress them, and then serve that to you. This is the Opera Mini strategy.

It's not what firethief was talking about, but it's one way that that could be the case.