Cannot download over Cloudflare Warp about antennapod HOT 3 CLOSED

I looked into this a bit more. So the problem is that some VPNs report being metered connections. This is why on AntennaPod 3.0 and earlier, we had the following:

• If VPN and WiFi somewhere in the network stack: Never metered, no matter what the Android system (eg the VPN app) tells us
• Otherwise, do what the Android system tells us

Now in 3.1, we have the same check but we rewrote the download service. The download is now handled by Android system components, which do not have the first VPN-specific check. That's why the following happens:

• AntennaPod thinks it's not metered (because it works around misbehaving VPN apps)
• It tells the Android system to start the download
• The Android system waits until there is a non-metered connection

So, from AntennaPod's end, we need to use the same check as the Android system to fix this inconsistency. That means that users with misbehaving VPN apps will see the confirmation dialog on 3.1, while they got a direct download on 3.0. But at least it is no longer in an inconsistent state where we start a download that won't actually be scheduled by the system.

In the long term, VPN apps should stop messing with the network connection. This causes so much headache. People open VPN related issues every few days. And that's just because VPN companies are promising things that are straight up nonsense to make money from people not knowing what they are doing... (okay, enough rant about this VPN hype)

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Do you have "refresh+download over mobile data" enabled in AntennaPod? Some VPN services pretend to be mobile networks in order to make apps use less traffic. In that case, AntennaPod waits until it has WiFi again (eg. VPN disabled) before starting the download.

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Refresh, yes. Download, no: it asks me every time if I'm on mobile data.

Just tested:

• on mobile data, Warp on, downloads over mobile disabled: a dialog pops up asking if I want to proceed
• on WiFi, Warp on, downloads over mobile enabled: dowload commences immediately
• on Wifi, Warp on, downloads over mobile disabled: no dialog and download doesn't start

So it seems your hypothesis is pointing in the right direction, but it's not the whole story: AntennaPod realises it's on WiFi so it doesn't show the dialog, but at the same time it thinks this wifi is "sort of like" mobile data and won't start the download.

Is there any way for me to check if system reports current connection as metered?

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