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FWIW, when the Kindle Fire launched, the major "breakthrough" feature was that it would pipe all your web traffic through Amazon's servers in EC2 (for browsing

FWIW, when the Kindle Fire launched, the major "breakthrough" feature was that it would pipe all your web traffic through Amazon's servers in EC2 (for browsing acceleration)... http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/amazon-silk/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/amazon-silk/

ikeboy 11y ago
Which is now a standard feature on chrome and elsewhere.
- tedivm 11y ago
  I had never heard of this until your comment. I did a bit of research on this and have to say it is one of the least well advertised feature of any software I've seen in awhile- after a bunch of searching I found it on the bottom of the chrome privacy whitepaper[1], where it's referred to as "Data Saver". This feature is actually pretty cool. It only hijacks http traffic (leaving https the same) but pushes that traffic over an encrypted channel to google. This has some pretty positive benefits if you're the type of person who connects to random wifi, although there's apparently a simple way for network admins to disable the feature (if they block a certain webpage form loading chrome will go back to working like normal). The other major thing- and the reason I looked into this to begin with- is that it's opt in. So if you're like me and freaked out that google was spying on you after reading ikeboy's comment then you can relax now. [1] https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.htm...
  - ikeboy 11y ago
    I tend to go through every option of software when I begin using it, at least on a mobile device where there usually aren't too many settings. There are only like 10 settings on chrome mobile, and this is one, documented at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?hl=en Note that they removed it from iOS because of constraints, see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6323113 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6323113
  - ignoramous 11y ago
    Opera did it way better. It wasn't long ago that in markets with 2G and Edge, Opera Mini was as ubiquitous as WhatsApp is today. They really executed it brilliantly. I rem browsing webpages with 1MiB or more being reduced to 40KiB.
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- bloaf 11y ago
  Is it at all like Opera Turbo? http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-turbo-mode-and-how-to-enable-it/ http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-tur...

ikeboy 11y ago

Which is now a standard feature on chrome and elsewhere.

tedivm 11y ago
I had never heard of this until your comment. I did a bit of research on this and have to say it is one of the least well advertised feature of any software I've seen in awhile- after a bunch of searching I found it on the bottom of the chrome privacy whitepaper[1], where it's referred to as "Data Saver". This feature is actually pretty cool. It only hijacks http traffic (leaving https the same) but pushes that traffic over an encrypted channel to google. This has some pretty positive benefits if you're the type of person who connects to random wifi, although there's apparently a simple way for network admins to disable the feature (if they block a certain webpage form loading chrome will go back to working like normal). The other major thing- and the reason I looked into this to begin with- is that it's opt in. So if you're like me and freaked out that google was spying on you after reading ikeboy's comment then you can relax now. [1] https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.htm...
- ikeboy 11y ago
  I tend to go through every option of software when I begin using it, at least on a mobile device where there usually aren't too many settings. There are only like 10 settings on chrome mobile, and this is one, documented at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2392284?hl=en Note that they removed it from iOS because of constraints, see https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6323113 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6323113
- ignoramous 11y ago
  Opera did it way better. It wasn't long ago that in markets with 2G and Edge, Opera Mini was as ubiquitous as WhatsApp is today. They really executed it brilliantly. I rem browsing webpages with 1MiB or more being reduced to 40KiB.
- deleted 11y ago
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bloaf 11y ago
Is it at all like Opera Turbo? http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-turbo-mode-and-how-to-enable-it/ http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/what-is-opera-tur...