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GabeU's avatar
GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago

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...
  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    7 years ago

    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.

maratsade's avatar
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

"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 more.  WOW.  Just WOW!!! "

 

GabeU, Do you mean you went to Walmart.com?   I've gone there often and haven't experienced any large amounts of data being used.

MarkJFine's avatar
MarkJFine
Professor
7 years ago

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.