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Comment by technoblue | Hacker News Reader

It's a relatively small download (for desktop) and it demonstrates its simplicity.

120MB is no small deal when you're using a 50MB data bundle on a crappy Kenyan ISP, on your phone. There should definitely be a prompt, I just lost half my day's data (before I stopped it).

Edit: changed "your" to "you're" ;)

WHAT? You mean you're not sat in a cafe in San Francisco?

Or a coworking open plan space?

oh the horror, the horror!

It might be good to show a download of something like a 1MB video file that you could turn on. Tying a 120MB download to reading about what you are showing to people is ridiculous.

A 120MB video downloading and playing in real time as a torrent is a lot more impressive than a 1MB clip. A page showing a 120MB video that is not DDOSed by making it to the front page of Hacker News is even more impressive ;)

This is also not different (on desktop) from visiting a Youtube channel page which has an auto-play "intro" video. I just hope this at least tries to detect device/connection type before starting on cellphone. Wonder if there is an HTTP 'connection-metered' header or something like that...

I can turn off autoplay on YouTube. I know, when I visit youtube, that it's going to be bunch of video.

I wouldn't be very happy if I opened it in the background tab on a metered connection (say, 3G).

Except when it just blew through my data allowance for mobile..... Just have a demo page for this.

Crazy

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