Google Launches App That Can Help You Track and Conserve Mobile Data (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:00AM from the carrot dept.

Google has taken another small step forward in its mission to connect the "next billion" users with a new app designed to optimize your mobile data usage. From a report: Datally for Android has been in testing for several months in the Philippines, and now it's ready for prime time globally. To activate Datally, you will have to give the app access to many facets of your device, including giving it the ability to "make and manage calls," "send and view SMS messages," and view the device's location. But then again, any app that wants to monitor background processes on your smartphone will need fairly comprehensive access to the device.

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Eat your own dogfood by chrylis · 2017-11-30 05:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

In other news, Google Maps still pulls a megabyte of data when you open it to display a useless "what's nearby" panel that can't be disabled.
Maybe start with cutting out data-hungry misfeatures in your own applications?