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Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by toomuchtodo on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:37PM (#10838855)
> At best I would say that better user education could be called for, or potentially forcing the users to make an opt-in/out decision, but honestly I think the users would hate the interruption. This is clearly a situation like the European cookie permission law: If you force them to ask the users whether it's OK, sure they will ask, and that will interfere with the UX and piss off users.

T-Mobile provides a text message with details about BingeOn, and allows you a setting to opt out if you'd prefer higher quality streams (with using your data quota as a consequence).

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-24294#tutorial1

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Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by ploxiln on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:47PM (#10838936)
I got the text message (and of course I'd read about it in tech news for weeks before), but I've never seen the option where it's supposed to be. It's just not there under "Other Services" for me. Wasn't there at launch, wasn't there a month later, and still isn't there today.

I'm not going to call someone over this though - I don't watch video on my phone! I just want to turn it off on principle. Well, what can you do - all the other carriers are easily more evil than T-Mobile.

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