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Article #280Re: what popular websites are bandwidth hogs?
From: Dr Sir John Howard AC WSCMoF
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:50
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:50
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Nomen Nescio wrote: > My internet usage jumped from 1 GB per month to 5 GB. > My girlfriend moved in and she uses Facebook + Myspace a lot. > Neither of us has downloaded videos, music, software ISOs > and such big items. I heard that many contemporary websites > eat up 1 or 2 MB per hour with rotating ads and refresh > and such crap. Also that they are unusable on a dialup > connection. Is there anybody who monitors the popular > websites and issues bandwidth hog ratings? Use FireFox with AdBlock+ or NoScript. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8 - KRudd at his finest. "The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!" - Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity. "This is the recession we had to have!" - Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession. "Silly old bugger!" - Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more. "By 1990, no child will live in poverty" - Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election. "A billion trees ..." - Borke, pissed as a newt again. "Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor general!" - Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his appointee for Governor General John Kerr. "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMB CUNT!" - FlangesBum on learning the truth about Labour's economic capabilities. "I don't care what you fuckers think!" - KRudd the KRude Rat at his finest again. "We'll just change it all when we get in." - Garrett the carrott
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