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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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Not all Internet experiences are equal though. 1 GB of internet in Pakistan ($0.69) ≠ 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). I would gladly trade my Pakistani internet plan for my Canadian internet plan. Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was: + highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare's edge-node's within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0]; + I couldn't use "any mo…

And let's not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google's AI just to access some sites! If you're not outright blocked, that is. All for having an IP address originating from such regions with cheap internet that you can't do much with anyway.

That really has nothing to do with the quality of the connection (what kind of bandwidth/ping and availability).

It's people misbehaving that causes these types of ban and who are voting for pro-censorship government. They could remove these restrictions overnight if they wanted to.

Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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At $35 per gigabyte, visiting a badly written website could cost $0.5 just for opening a home page. And it's not like people don't have FOSS tools to optimize images, or read for free on how to make browser load smaller or different format (like webp) of images on smaller screen devices. Often times developers just don't care because it doesn't cost them anything. So disabling all images in the browser is a must if o…

Or you could limit the size of media elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right? Or will it also terminate requests that simply keep loading past the 50kiB or whatever mark?

Anyway, looks like a reason to use Firefox on mobile. :)

Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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Or you could limit the size of media elements https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right? Or will it also terminate requests that simply keep loading past the 50kiB or whatever mark? Anyway, looks like a reason to use Firefox on mobile. :)

> That probably only works if the remote sends the content-length header, right?

Correct: "If the media elements do not have Content-Length header present, then this switch will fail to block the said media elements by size."

Source: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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Free global messaging isn’t gonna happen. It’s not like internal messaging which is essentially free, but if you send a message to Congo, they want real money to deliver the message.

Meh, as long as I have internet connectivity I don't need texts. Iliad includes 2gb free in roaming mode, as gp correctly pointed out (I forgot about that, but it was very handy when I was in Leipzig during last CCC).

European roaming is very different from “global messaging”. I assume you were trying to reply to the same person, not me. I don’t need global messaging either.

Also FYI it’s 4gb. I know because I just ran out of it.

Re: The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

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Maybe if you compared the EU to NA, and ME with other ME, and SEA with other SEA you would have less cherry picking going on. Apples to apples.

The internet in MY is pretty different from VN, or even a skip across the border to SG. Not easy to pick a spot on the globe and assume everything in the vicinity is the same. Even ISPs in the US.

Sure, but it should be more comparable than Canada and Pakistan.
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