alt Hacker NewsDownloading 500 MB in 5 minutes in the background of a random article is really disrespectful to readers on low-end devices or metered data plans (and these two groups are often the same people!). What a waste of ressources.
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al_borland • yesterday at 10:23 PM
Even with good bandwidth and unlimited data, it’s still disrespectful.
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hohithere • today at 1:21 AM
Agreed, my data plan don't approve these kind of pages.
I've worked with a lot of people at the bottom end of society in the USA. They are given government provided phones they can use so they have access to Google Maps, email, job search apps etc. These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. After that they drop down to 2G speed, but not in a way that will allow anything to actually load.
Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste.