Post #3373167

2026-06-22 10:09 UTC

Whatever browser you use would, presumably, make no difference to how much data a website tries to send you. It would only change what’s displayed. If your connection really is limited to such a slow speed, you might need to find a proxy server that strips out as much as possible before it reaches you.

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@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2026-06-22 11:23

Well, the browser could choose not to download the images, videos and styling information. Trouble is that many modern sites load their content through JavaScript programs that can be comparatively massive. But I guess losing those sites would be a small price to pay for OP. Just loading the text should be really small, especially when it is compressed, which should be the standard nowadays.

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@L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-22 18:35

I needed something like this back when I lived out in the sticks. Could only get 2g - 3g on Verizon at home, had a DSL line for the desktop, high speed connections were prohibitively expensive. Back in the day you could just walk away and let sites buffer while doing other stuff, but as the rest of the world grew faster, low speed customers got left behind. Everything is set to timeout if it fails to load in a couple minutes. Only solution I ever found was to disable JavaScript, force everything to HTML/CSS only where possible, and use a download manager with automatic retry/restart to download any videos I wanted to watch from YouTube or Facebook.

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