Internet usage is upwardly mobile, no more so than across the African continent, India, and Indonesia. With news that Opera has introduced Opera Max with free data compression, Google – and, subsequently, Chrome – isn’t a company nor browser to be outdone.
In the latest update to the Android version of the company’s Chrome browser, Google has unveiled a new Data Saver mode that could potentially save a user’s data by up to an impressive 70%.
Taj Oppenheimer, the Product Manager of Chrome at Alphabet, explains that the new Data Saver mode “removes most images when loading a page on a slow connection.” This means that if Chrome detects a user is accessing the internet through a slow mobile data connection, Chrome will load a page without images – leading to faster speeds and less data expenditure.
Users will be able to opt-in and load all pictures on a site, or touch individual images they wish to load.
Google announced that the new mode will first be available in India and Indonesia, where telecommunications infrastructure is more dated. Presently, there’s no word as to whether the feature will be introduced on the iOS version of Chrome.
The news follows the announcement that Opera Max will now compress data from music streaming services, as well as Opera Mini’s re-launch with new data compression services.
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