I worry the cellular providers in the US may throttle apps that aren’t big players. Even ‘unlimited’ data plans still have throttling in major cities. But I often wonder if there is differential treatment for Facebook vs. other stuff? or am I paranoid? It never seems like I get a slow connection when they want to send me a video ad in a major app— but, images in smaller apps initially load quickly (but after what feels like a cap is reached) they slow. Is this basically the net neutrality issue?
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@futurebird as I understand it, there are countries where Facebook or others pay for the bandwidth, so all other services are comparatively expensive
There's also the stuff comcast did to […]
@futurebird You are not insane. Certain categories of apps need prioritization, such as voice apps, since latency and speed are issues in performance. But these are technical issues. We never […]
@futurebird You’re not paranoid, myrmepropagandist. If anything I’m a little now after reading your post, LOL.
@futurebird are you totally on your phone’s broadband ? All Meta Products especially FaceBook are phone resource hogs.
Have you ever noticed your phone getting hot when you have facebook […]
@futurebird Mobile carriers have always messed around with traffic, especially for marketing reasons. In some sense, marketing (including their own) is their main business. Infrastructure and […]
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I don't know if it's currently happening, but there have been "Facebook phone plans" and the like, which include unlimited Facebook access but not the wider Internet.
@futurebird I remember a time when this was actually sold as a feature. When Pokemon Go first came out, some providers made plans for it that would prioritize its traffic, as well as "count" it […]
@futurebird It's absolutely a thing.
This goes against net neutrality which stipulates that every bit should be treated equally.
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@futurebird This is the net neutrality issue. I would say it is not paranoid to wonder about it. Other entirely hypothetical explanations for same data:
- Facebook almost certainly has a […]
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