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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.
Thanks for sharing mcdruid! Glad that solution is working out for you. I'm going to move this to our 3rd Party Products board.
If you people only knew how much embedded ad images, css, and javascript there is in a conventional web page you'd faint.
Not only from file size and data usage perspective, a lot of these have to be downloaded from various sites other than the one you're on - making the site much slower to load due to having to resolve each address and any associated latency.
Sites with a lot of images also take a lot of data. The images themselves are usually very resolute and scaled down to size for display. It adds up, so it pays to not automatically display images on social media, etc.
