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And check suckless.org, especially dwm
2. about web: too bad that design-addict webdev community bloated it. But wish someone make a simpler, faster & straightforward web as portable app platform with few nice commercial qualities...
3. About OS: OS need not be bloated if it isn't running behind popularity by satisfying everyone's remote needs. ( source: plan9, suckless, busybox )...
And BillG didn't deserve it...
[] Movie piracy: continuing through telegram groups
[] WhatsApp - people share videos on whatsapp a lot these days..
[] YouTube - Here I don't think ppl are much into paying for Netflix / Amazon, but YouTube is used a lot.
[] Others: services like hotstar, voot ( movie / TV live streaming ), audio streaming services. Most of these are ad supported. And of course, seems quite a lot at adult content..
This is what I observed in surroundings. Indian people don't care much about ads and that also has been a monetization strategy for jio. I personally don't use any of their apps but many do. Also their cheap feature phones embed advertising.
I remember browsing at ~10 KiB/s on BSNL 2G network at 20MB/day for INR 4, now at nearly same cost, I can get much better internet, though not even near to foreign speeds.
but there are things like free online leechers, telegram groups that freely share pirated content..
It is not possible to get old movies this way tho...
And service isn't that stellar. They say 4G but 400 KiB/s is average IMO. I am from rural india & used net before that on lowend J2ME phones, which was around 10 KiB/s.
Having said that, jio has done a great job, where otherwise 1GiB of 2G data cost >$5.