Your word might be of petabytes of traffic. Some people have slow lines. Some people have metered Internet subscriptions.

Not everyone has access to the same infrastructure you have.

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SilverSurfer972 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or just tethering abroad with an esim data plan... Just opening chrome would deplete your quota and leave you stranded. Google you are sick!

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efdee 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Surely it will wait when the connection is marked as metered.

	▲	user_7832 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I definitely trust Google's team (and large trillion dollar companies with sufficient resources to do this) to make reasonable choices for their users... said, perhaps, someone ever? Certainly not me. (I wanted to write something far snarkier and sarcastic but getting annoyed at google is like getting annoyed at a lawnmower/Oracle. That plus HN guidelines.)

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derangedHorse 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's somewhat known that Chrome isn't catering to those users. They aim to deliver feature-rich experiences rather than be the de-facto browser for resource-constrained devices.

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handoflixue 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Okay, but that's still not an environmental disaster.