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Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by rixed on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:43PM (#14841960)
This could be easier: your phone could query periodically your balance(s) and figure out the price of various connections. All you need for this is telcos providing real time balance in a standard protocol.
Re:Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] by wutthrow on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:05PM (#14844514)
Spoken like the generation taught to not conserve data. /s

The phone itself could easily record the returned file size of all requests within a threshold. My old Note3 has these alerts built in with separate limits for mobile vs wifi.