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Re:Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps by Timothee on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @12:33PM (#3130867)
In August I ended up using 100MB in one day for whatever reason (I imagine Netflix even though I was home) and started to think about having a proxy service to help me cut down on bandwidth use as well as being able to monitor how much each individual app uses.

I don't know if that's at all possible or if that exists but I realized that it'd be hard to make that a paying product since, with AT&T at least, it costs only $10 extra to go to the next bandwidth cap. You'd most likely need to go under these $10 to see any real interest… That would actually allow you to cut Flurry et al off completely.

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Re:Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps by rgsteele on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @01:19PM (#3131087)
A company called Onavo is doing exactly that:

http://www.onavo.com/

They have an iOS app that configures your device to use their proxy servers. I haven't tried it myself since I'm a bit hesitant to route all my traffic through a third party, but it does sound promising.

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