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Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth?
forrestm writes "At home, my internet connection is limited to 1GB / month before I have to pay extra. At my university, I'm charged around 2.5c per megabyte. I rarely download anything big, but I often go through a large amount of bandwidth by simply browsing around. For example, when I play a YouTube video, click a link, and then return to the video, the whole video reloads. When I read some websites, such as BoingBoing.net or Cnet.com, my status bar shows a whole lot of data being transferred through other domains. Some pages seem to send/receive data at certain intervals for the duration of my visit. When I begin to enter a search in Firefox's search bar, a list of suggestions is automatically downloaded. In addition to this, Firefox often requests internet access of its own accord, even though I have automatic updating turned off. All this is costing me! How do I stop unsolicited use of my internet connection? How do I go about not wasting bandwidth like this?"
You don't mind giving control to prefetch your bank account page with "get request" to transfer all your money to Nigeria?
Or automatically vote in online poll?
How about many users prefetching images managing to DDOS a site?
It could happen in theory.
Who's moderating today, the retards brothers? If something your comment should be -1 obvious.
Don't you think the OP doesn't know that it would be a better solution to have 100 GB/month instead? You think he's doing byte counting for the fun?