| ▲ | walletdrainer 5 hours ago |
| > Google has not, to my knowledge, published any analysis of the welfare impact of this on the populations whose internet access is metered. This is satire, obviously. |
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| ▲ | mschuster91 5 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Clearly, you've never lived in Germany or other places that still have data caps and slow and unreliable internet connections. Yes, 4GB of unintended traffic can absolutely wreck someone's finances. |
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| ▲ | Ekaros 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or places with collateral damage due to failures of German ISPs and state... That is many other parts of Europe while roaming... 4GB is significant cut of the roaming data allocated... | | |
| ▲ | Bender an hour ago | parent [-] | | Some time ago friends were pranking each other with 32GB favicon.ico files this was a thing and one of them was on mobile in Germany. Turns out it would keep downloading in the background even if leaving the page. Their account was locked and had a massive bill for roaming charges. That prank went horribly wrong. |
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