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Kidding aside, I would not put much trust on an online statistic. Specially since they did not even have the decency to tell us where and how they got that info
>most time spent online is done via mobile devices, with the greatest portion of that time spent on social media A lot of people in Phils seem to have a FB-connected mobile plan where they can chat on FB but not see the pictures on there, although you can send them pictures in the chat. And it only seems to connect them to FB, not the whole internet. Just a messenger app I guess. (Most of my close friends are in the…
How would a mobile provider block pictures and other attachments inside a chat system? See a large transfer and kill the connection? Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services?
Or just tunnel their traffic through the chat itself:
How did they measure this? What qualifies as “online”? Does leaving Skype on and open while I go about my day count me in the statistic?
Probably, using the average of facebook users spent scrolling to their feeds..
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How would a mobile provider block pictures and other attachments inside a chat system? See a large transfer and kill the connection? Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services?
Facebook itself subsidizes a specific 'facebook data plan' with mobile providers. It loads free.facebook.com which specifically does things to keep data down also.
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How would a mobile provider block pictures and other attachments inside a chat system? See a large transfer and kill the connection? Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services?
Also, in this scenario what would stop users from using domain fronting or encrypted SNI to access other Facebook services? Or just tunnel their traffic through the chat itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203946
Sadly though, most of the data probably applies to Filipinos in Metro Manila and developed cities, and there's still a huge part of the population that do not have access to the internet or even basic services like 24-hour electricity.
I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the quality of news I am consuming has gone really down. I wonder what similar changes Philippines is seeing. People are obviously replacing some offline activity with something similar they do online. For example spending time with friends our neighbors in real life ha…
Before you wasted multiple hours a day on ephemera when you could have read something lasting or done something more fun, now you waste less than an hour. Before you had no information sources to provide alternative viewpoints or later, more in depth reporting after the initial flurry of news reporting. Now you realise journalists are often ignorant, writing under really tight deadlines and have no incentive to fix mistakes unless someone can sue them or has their own media platform. Journalism was always awful, you just didn’t know.
man.... and to think i'v got no facebook or social media... i work using the internet and live useing the internet... it's hard for me to remember the last the i was less then 10 hours online...
wow man... so the avrage people don't use the internet much ugh...
Filipino internet user here. Can at least say that 10 hours a day for most Filipinos seem accurate enough—most people here are connected to FB Messenger via telcos' free FB promos. And a lot of Filipinos use Facebook like a realtime social lobby, replying to comments and status updates almost instantly. Sadly though, most of the data probably applies to Filipinos in Metro Manila and developed cities, and there's stil…
Worse, someone told me that in 2012, internet service was way better, but then they realized they could just throttle everyone down and jack the prices up.
And I also had to have a Globe and Smart SIM cards, since the two cellphone companies have a cartel.
I loved it there, but it is a shame about the infrastructure.
With that said, internet is so darn slow and unreliable it must be messaging services. It's hard to get real work done from the Phils as a remote software developer. Thank goodness for Tmux and SSH.