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Data conscious people should avoid Walmart like the plague!
I went to Walmart to look at a smart phone. In under five minutes I had burned through over 105MB of data, and had I not noticed my modem going nuts and then looking in Glasswire, it would have been...
Many web sites now use a ton of plugins, each requiring its own JavaScript module to be loaded. Many are internal to the site, some are external. The net result can literally be 100s of MB.
Usually those things are cached in the browser. The first time it will fully load and cache it for later. After that you just get a 304 'not modified' code, skips it, and moves on to the next instruction.
Possible that you cleared your cache or they updated their plugins at some point.
I just tried it again and it didn't do the same thing
I hadn't been to Walmart in quite some time, so it's possible that it's just not doing it now because whatever it was is in the cache, or, like you said, it could have been something getting caught in a loop. Whatever the case, I'm going to be very careful from now on with Walmart.
GabeU wrote:I just tried it again and it didn't do the same thing
I hadn't been to Walmart in quite some time, so it's possible that it's just not doing it now because whatever it was is in the cache, or, like you said, it could have been something getting caught in a loop. Whatever the case, I'm going to be very careful from now on with Walmart.
" Whatever the case, I'm going to be very careful from now on with Walmart."
To be honest that should be the case with all sites. I routinely monitor background use although I do tend to be one who focuses a lot on such things. I've had other sites do the same here and there throughout my years on the Internet. I've always closed the page, gone back, and it magically has stopped using the data.
