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The article mentions that the ads will only load over WiFi. How do you do that? Is it functionality specific to mobile apps?
by rcfox 13y ago
The article mentions that the ads will only load over WiFi. How do you do that? Is it functionality specific to mobile apps?
- TheSOB888 13y agoWell, yeah. The article says "so as to not use the users' data plans", so this seems like it's a mobile feature.
- josefresco 13y agoThe source of our WiFi is increasingly being capped as well so I'm not so sure this is even an acceptable approach. Just because I have WiFi single doesn't meet I have an unlimited amount of bandwidth to load your crappy video. Detecting WiFi is a clever hack that works for right now, but for those using cell wifi routers, cell hot spots or with crappy ISPs that have a low cap it won't matter.
- bentcorner 13y agoI know in Android you can mark a wifi AP as a hotspot to make apps throttle. I don't know about iOS or WP though.
- bmelton 13y agoIt's an API available via the Android and iOS SDKs, respectively. How to detect the network connection type on Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2802472/detect-network-connection-type-on-android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2802472/detect-network-co... How to detect the network connection type on iOS: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7938650/ios-detect-3g-or-wifi http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7938650/ios-detect-3g-or-...