Google Chrome On Android Now Blocks Image With The Data Saver Mode Update
Mary Cris BalancioLast year, in a bid to reduce the amount of data being used by their users, Google came up with the "Data Saver" mode in Chrome. With the help of the said mode, slow internet connections would become much more tolerable since the web pages that a user will see has been optimized for data efficiency by the search engine.
The mode works by compressing all the web pages on the tech giant's servers before they will be sent to a user. This means that the results will be about 50% smaller than what it will be if the user is on the website without using the Data Saver mode. This in turn, might mean the user might wait for a longer loading time but will see results that might match what they are looking for faster than usual.
With the tech giant's Data Saver mode being successful, they are now taking another step to help users save time during slow connection speeds or are just try to avoid hitting their monthly mobile phone data cap by stopping the loading of web pages. Google says they are updating this mode to save more data or at least up to about 70% by removing or reducing the appearance of images especially when loading pages on a slow connection.
They are not going to entirely remove the pictures as some sites might look a bit off without them, so the tech giant thought of letting their users pull up the pictures they would like to see. What happens is once a page has finished loading, the user will then have the option to either show all the images and see how the page normally looks or load each picture one at a time.
Google says that their Android users in India and Indonesia will be getting the updated Data Saver mode first. Other countries will follow suit in the coming months. Additionally, the Data Saver mode can be turned on or off just by going into the settings menu of Chrome's mobile version.
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