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by brilee 484 days ago
Oh! I think this explains the issue I had on Android Firefox where every so often my phone would randomly consume 10gb/day in data (costing me $stupid on phone bill). I believe a news site was playing audio and was loading new ads on repeat and the tab never went to sleep because of the audio! I had to switch to chrome because the repeating surprise data bills were becoming silly