I highly doubt random websites are eating your data, it’s much more likely your videos and whatnot. I browse a lot on my phone and I generally use 1-2GB in a month. If I watch video, that’s gone in an hour.
It’s not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It’s not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.
My only social media is Lemmy, and I’m not interested in the video content here, which probably explains my low data usage. When I’m on data, I’m mostly reading text (news, technical docs for personal projects, etc), submitting text (Lemmy, bug reports, etc), or occasionally looking at rendered charts (stocks, statistics, etc). I usually use about 1GB/month.
My SO uses Instagram, listens to YouTube when going for a walk, etc, and is a much heavier user than I. Most of that’s on WiFi, but they keep the same habits when going out each day. We recently needed to bump from 5GB to 15GB data cap, and a typical month is probably 8GB or so now.
So that’s my metric for lean and typical users. Using more than double my SO’s cap sounds like a lot of data and puts you in outlier territory.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I highly doubt random websites are eating your data, it’s much more likely your videos and whatnot. I browse a lot on my phone and I generally use 1-2GB in a month. If I watch video, that’s gone in an hour.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It’s not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It’s not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
My only social media is Lemmy, and I’m not interested in the video content here, which probably explains my low data usage. When I’m on data, I’m mostly reading text (news, technical docs for personal projects, etc), submitting text (Lemmy, bug reports, etc), or occasionally looking at rendered charts (stocks, statistics, etc). I usually use about 1GB/month.
My SO uses Instagram, listens to YouTube when going for a walk, etc, and is a much heavier user than I. Most of that’s on WiFi, but they keep the same habits when going out each day. We recently needed to bump from 5GB to 15GB data cap, and a typical month is probably 8GB or so now.
So that’s my metric for lean and typical users. Using more than double my SO’s cap sounds like a lot of data and puts you in outlier territory.