Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage

Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:11AM (#25643978)

They're not "getting away" with anything. Your network is a serial stream. The bitrate is what matters. At the dawn of IP, machines with 5,6,7,8,9,16, and 18 bit "bytes" were commonplace. Bitrate is the only common way to measure data rates among dissimilar architectures.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by krageon on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:20AM (#25644033)

This doesn't describe reality now (and hasn't for a while), all the reasons that are left are deceptive ones.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by namibj on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:14AM (#25646982)

Arguable counterpoint: HDMI/DP in HDR mode, with typically 10 or 12 bit per channel. I think DP still crams it into bytes, but last I checked, HDMI doesn't do anything like that. They tend to just send the raw binary image content.

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Re:Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage by krageon on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:14AM (#25669742)

We were speaking about the speeds on internet connections and their hypothetical need to be stated in bits. No good argument for that exists today. You've provided an architectural detail for something most people won't know about and broadly doesn't matter when speaking of the internet besides.

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