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Google Quietly Launches Data Saver Extension For Chrome

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-track-of-things dept.

An anonymous reader writes Google has quietly released a Data Saver extension for Chrome, bringing the company's data compression feature to the desktop for the first time. You can download the extension, currently in beta, from the Chrome Web Store. We say "quietly" because there doesn't seem to be an announcement from Google. The extension was published on March 23 and appears to work exactly as advertised on the tin, based on what we've seen in our early tests.

3 of 39 comments (clear)

  1. Proxy! WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, it's a Google proxy service that routes, not just my searches through Google but, ALL of my browser activity through Google?

    I'm going to take a pass. Thanks anyway, Google.

  2. What does it do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe it works "exactly as advertised on the tin", but TFS doesn't say whatever the tin says.
    Why should I care about some random unexplained extension?

  3. And it does... what, exactly? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would it kill you to explain even vaguely what this thing does in the summary?

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