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I don't want webpages being preloaded on mobile because as it stands mobile carriers are still charging an arm and a leg for mobile data. Preloading means that pages are being loaded that I never see.

The clientside ecosystem is mad, average webpage size has ballooned to 3MB. I often choose to preload a podcast, in exchange for loading one single webpage. Therefore choosing which result I want before opening it is something I'm interested in.

Webpages are easily the heaviest use of my data as it is. I could spend all day on maps, reading email, or otherwise without any problem.

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Agreed. It's all the javascript redirects a dozen times through a dozen ad networks that often kill your data (and battery), and sometimes autoplaying videos too, when you just want to read the damn article.

I've written about what I'm working on which address this in my other comment. I've been secretly trying to scratch my itch for the last 2 years. Love to hear more on what irks you when it comes to mobile search. I've written more at https://medium.com/p/rethink-mobile-search-10-100x-faster-in...

I pay $60 a month for 23 gigabytes of 4G on Virgin Mobile - it's almost impossible for me to use it, and I avoid work wi-fi and casually watch video. A year or so ago, I got 8 gigabytes for that $60.

Admittedly, Virgin is a bit of a value leader, but the world is headed toward extremely cheap data, so it's savvy for a startup to make a product geared toward that.

Cheap, fast, coverage. Pick two.

Easy - cheap and fast. I've never had coverage issues within 50 miles of a major metro area (where I spend 99.999% of my time). Paying 30% more to have coverage on every remote stretch of a roadtrip (when I'm typically trying to disconnect and/or listening to downloaded music/audiobooks) has never been remotely tempting.

Besides, I mainly mentioned Virgin as an example of where I expect all the carriers, the coverage leaders included, to go very shortly.

This is highly localized to India, but Reliance Jio offers all three. Widest LTE coverage, fastest and most modern data infrastructure, cheapest plans. They're literally killing incumbents like Vodafone and Idea.

To give an idea about the prices, I pay ₹349 ($5.46) for unlimited voice plus 1GB high speed data per day. Oh and this is not a monthly plan, it's for 3 months!

Yeah, I'm extremely jealous of the cellular plans I've heard of from other countries. The state of US carriers is a joke.

Haha I'm not gonna spend $60/month on data for my phone. You can buy a new phone three times a year for that. But you've got a point, a lot of people do.

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