hello faithful readers I made this to stretch my data further when I'm travelling.
there's some issues and it still works for many sites and apps including the basic basic HTML version of Gmail including gitlab including many news sites.
I find it saves my bandwidth literally about 10 to 20 times. for example if normally browser session for a couple of hours would use 200 megabytes of data I can do it with this in anywhere from 10 to 20 megabytes of data.
I don't know if this is a product but it's useful for me (and getting more useful as I fix bugs) and I have plans to improve the data reduction even more.
the version I posted is a paid version so I'm including this link to one that you can try out without paying and just using a stripe test card.
test card version: https://staging.stretchy.live
(if you don't want to go through the lengthy signup process, just login with username/password: hacker/hacker)
I also want to add that I like how this and extrapolating forward from this, compliments ideas about reducing website bloat in general that are gaining currency at this time.
Safari users on iOS please note: you'll need to turn on Pointer Events in advanced settings.
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there's some issues and it still works for many sites and apps including the basic basic HTML version of Gmail including gitlab including many news sites.
I find it saves my bandwidth literally about 10 to 20 times. for example if normally browser session for a couple of hours would use 200 megabytes of data I can do it with this in anywhere from 10 to 20 megabytes of data.
I don't know if this is a product but it's useful for me (and getting more useful as I fix bugs) and I have plans to improve the data reduction even more.
the version I posted is a paid version so I'm including this link to one that you can try out without paying and just using a stripe test card.
test card version: https://staging.stretchy.live (if you don't want to go through the lengthy signup process, just login with username/password: hacker/hacker)
I also want to add that I like how this and extrapolating forward from this, compliments ideas about reducing website bloat in general that are gaining currency at this time.
Safari users on iOS please note: you'll need to turn on Pointer Events in advanced settings.