[HN Gopher] Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC
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       Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC
        
       Author : thimabi
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-10-23 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | OptionOfT wrote:
       | I cannot control how much data I consume. Especially now with
       | more and more websites being so big. And no, not every device
       | supports uBlock Origin. Pi-Hole / Adguard only does so much these
       | days.
       | 
       | iOS / Mac updates are humongous. 100+MB per webview-wrapper app.
       | And they aren't sharable. iOS 18.1 today was 8GB. How many Apple
       | devices do you have?
       | 
       | Every website these days starts to automatically play videos,
       | with no way of disabling that (looking at you Fandom, and until
       | recently, Ars Technica).
       | 
       | All video is consumed in a streaming manner. At least when you
       | watched a movie over cable it didn't consume bandwidth. But when
       | you watch the same movie on YouTube TV it is counting towards
       | your 'limits'.
       | 
       | And you cannot set proper limits, as they calculate your usage
       | once per day. Go over, $10 per 50GB on Cox. And your limit is
       | 1280GB, even on their 2Gbit connection.
       | 
       | So unlike with your car where you have a pretty decent view on
       | when it's empty, and you can fill up at almost the same price as
       | the previous tank, here you're screwed twice, once because you
       | can't measure, and second, because the price is outrageous.
       | 
       | For a 2Gbit connection, you can actually go through your limit in
       | ...
       | 
       | 2Gbit = 250MB / sec. 1280GB = 1310720MB. 1310720 / 250 = 5242.88
       | seconds, or 1 hour, 27 minutes and 22.88 seconds.
       | 
       | Insane. We need more competition.
        
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