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Data Usage/Ad blocker
Just wanted to share my 2 cents worth on this subject. Have been with Hughes for 5 years and suffered agonizing usage numbers. Long story short, finally downloaded free version of Ad blocker( 30 da...
You should move your post to https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Third-Party-Products/bd-p/ThirdParty
Free ad blockers work just as well
Reader View is also a useful app to have.
There's plenty of free shareware add ons out there, I'm running AdGuard and NoScript. I recently had a spike in my data usage that I traced to a Firefox upgrade disabling NoScript. I removed NoScript and then reinstalled it, and things went back to normal. I believe that a Java script blocker like NoScript may actually save more data than an ad blocker. Kind of a pain to deal with though, since a lot of sites won't work properly without Java Script. Some will warn you that they need Java Script some not.
