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You shouldn't have to "beg" website authors to "play nice" for you, as a user. Web Standards and browsers have failed you by putting that much control into the
by nfoz 11y ago
You shouldn't have to "beg" website authors to "play nice" for you, as a user. Web Standards and browsers have failed you by putting that much control into the authors' hands.
It is reasonable to consider that "web" maybe should not have this capability, and web browsers should provide intuitive UI controls for users to enable/disable the ability for sites to do this to you.
- lazaroclapp 11y agoTo be fair, if the problem is the amount of data that will travel through your connection, there is not much difference between this and a 120MB text-only html file. So maybe browsers should offer a setting to cap the data retrieved from each individual domain on metered connections, unless instructed otherwise on a domain-by-domain basis?
- rplnt 11y agoThis is only problem on fast and capped connections which I would guess are rare. On slow connection (and proper browser) you see that it's downloading data, how much, how fast and you can stop it.
- AlphaSite 11y ago4g is fairly fast and generally capped. That is hardly rare.
- rplnt 11y agoOh, you are right. I was under the impression that 4G is something like 2-3 Mbps, which would make the caps somewhat proportional and hard to pass by accident. But I just tried speedtest.net (app) and download speed was almost 40 Mbps. I really had no idea.
- z3t4 11y agoISP offering 100/1000 Mbit connections with a data limit of 2 GB /month is absurd. I think that is the problem here, and not heavy content. Then there are bandwidth monitors ... I noticed though that the video continued downloading even though I had hit pause.