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		return0 on March 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CDN77 Now Supports Brotli How is it cheating if it was developed specifically for that?

Lagged2Death on March 22, 2016 [–]

"Cheating" might be a little strong, but "not actually comparable to general purpose tools like Gzip" seems justifiable.

kami8845 on March 22, 2016 | [–]

If we are talking about web content then how exactly is it not comparable?

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