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Students would set them up incorrectly and cause a series of problems with colliding DHCP servers

That's an IT problem, not a user problem. The downstream ports should have been isolated at both the link and packet layers. Configuring a router to share an unrestricted LAN between a dorm full of untrusted users is a disaster waiting to happen.

If somebody goes and causes an outage, I would expect nothing less than a tech walking around and trying to triangulate the offending router.

But in OP's case, it's an external ISP that provides internet services to the dorm. As long as nobody gives them a reason to start looking, I don't expect a for-profit ISP to be sending out a contractor proactively beyond the first week of move-ins. That costs them money, and likely a lot more money than they would recover by catching the handful of people trying to dogde the per-device upcharge.

If they go looking. It's unlikely they went out of their way to purchase and configure specialized devices in the building to catch it proactively.

That's assuming they're actively looking. Hiding your SSID is more to prevent someone from getting suspicious and calling out the ISP.

You shall not use or attempt to use a device or software (such as NAT, Address Masquerading, Proxying, or the connection of an additional wireless router) that would allow you to connect more than the number of devices set out in the Service Information to the Network.

One of the ways they detect this is by checking the TTL of the packets coming from the "one" device is less than expected. If your router is using OpenWrt, you can configure an iptables rule to reset the TTL of outgoing packets to the default.

Turn off SSID broadcasting entirely. Hidden networks require more technical expertise to discover than most people have.

The ISP techs will still be able to find it, but there's little reason for them to go looking when nothing seems out of the ordinary.

He's not bombing Gaza, he's decluttering it /s

Ah, yes. Let's treat the symptom and not the cause...

There's no suitable metaphor for ad blocking IRL

Sure there is.

Every week, your community puts on an old movie in the town park that everyone can watch for free. You, an avid movie enjoyer, watch this movie every week.

But, the movie equipment isn't free. To make this event happen, the community accepts a donation from The Church of Microwaving Babies and Kicking Puppies. In exchange, the Church of Microwaving Babies and Kicking Puppies pauses the movie every 50 minutes and puts on a small two-minute presentation about why you should consider joining and what puppy-kicking can do to improve your life.

You don't care. You do not agree with their views, and you definitely are never going to join. Instead of paying attention to their mandatory presentation, you stare at your phone and read Lemmy. Then, when the movie is back on, you once again pay attention.

That's ad-blocking. Some group gains revenue from their publicly available service by having an advertiser peddle their crap through said service. You take an active role in ignoring said crap, while most people just sit there twiddling their thumbs and pretending to care. The only tangible difference between you ignoring the ad while it plays and you blocking it is 60 seconds of your time and the bandwidth required to serve the ad.

Advertisers don't like it—but fuck the advertisers. The difference that you as an individual makes in how much money is made through advertising is less than a hundredth of a cent. If the impact of the collective using adblockers is enough to be an issue in sustainability, then advertising was not the correct business model to begin with.

You underestimate the absolute idiocy of Trump conspiratorialists. If the man had his head blown off on live television, they would either claim that it was a body double, and he's hiding underground to avoid another assassination attempt by "the Hollywood elite"... or that he faked his own death so he could go undercover and bust Harris' pedophilia ring.

I wish I were exaggerating. The Q-ultists are unfathomably brainwashed.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned porn yet. Like it or not, it does drive growth.

Something can be objectively correct yet still presented in an opinionated manner.