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Re:Is the web getting slower? by Yhippa on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:16AM (#24417394)
> The question is whether those pages are doing more for me, or whether they are doing more to me.

The best part is that I'm paying for that privilege when I'm not on WiFi.

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by toxik on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:35AM (#24417540)
Remarkable, isn’t it? A bit like paying for cable and getting more ads than content. Puts that recent post on auto play videos in new light, too.

It really sickens me how advertisers are allowed to tell us whatever they want if they just pay. Not surprisingly, the CCP took out a full page ad in my country’s most prominent newspaper to spread propaganda about the Hongkong protests.

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Re:Is the web getting slower? by noodlesoups on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:55AM (#24418479)
>The best part is that I'm paying for that privilege when I'm not on WiFi.

Datacaps are some of the best examples of the worst kind of rip-offs.

How they're tolerated is beyond my imagination. Here I can get a 100/50 4G consistently, it's for ~20€/mo and the operators have no complaints

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