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A Boring Dystopia

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These things are usually billed on a per-call basis. Costs can rise pretty dramatically pretty fast. Plus, you need to hire staff to manage the resources.

Sure, you could set up a VPN to your home network and not have to go through their infrastructure, but 99% of consumers won't do that.