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I'd assume that not all that information would require real-time feeding of data back to Google. So quite a lot I'd assume would be buffered and sent back whil
by lysp 8y ago
I'd assume that not all that information would require real-time feeding of data back to Google.
So quite a lot I'd assume would be buffered and sent back while you're on a wifi connection.
- askvictor 8y agoThe article states: > The experts, from computer and software corporation Oracle, claim Google is draining roughly one gigabyte of mobile data monthly from Android phone users’ accounts as it snoops in the background, collecting information to help advertisers. Then goes on to give a cost breakdown of how much this hypothetical data download is costing Australian's via their mobile data connections.
- chris_wot 8y agoIt's Oracle. You must ask yourself, what's in it for them? And is it actually true?
- 8note 8y agoIt's Google. you must ask yourself, what aren't they collecting?
- xbmcuser 8y agoIt's Google they are very good at data analysis them needing to use 1gb of data to know about you are doing on your phone is an idiotic assumption. They could probably do it 5 mb only. My bet is they are counting Google photo uploads to get the 1 gb figure.
- hannasanarion 8y agoMaybe you should ask yourself "how much data is 1gb times the number of android users?" and "how big is Google's datacenter?" (hint: the first number is bigger by a factor of 5)
- onetimemanytime 8y agoIf Charles Manson said that the sun rises from the East...wouldn't it be true, regardless of the source? What Oracle said can easily be checked by a lot of independent companies.
- voltagex_ 8y agoOn many, many Australian ADSL connections you'd notice anything sending that amount per month purely because how slow the connection would become.
- gaius 8y agoWhen you look at a page that has 5k of text you want to read and 5Mb of JS, that’s what this is