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by Nextgrid 673 days ago
You are severely underestimating the amount of JS and other tracker SDKs competing for traffic in the apps you mention. Browsing modern apps/websites on an unreliable 1Mbps connection is not pleasant, even more so when you're in a foreign country and rely on it to find directions/translate/etc. Not to mention if you suddenly need to download a local taxi/etc app that's 100MB.