Re: Browser to keep social media from burning up mobile data

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:43:24 -0500, VanguardLH wrote :

What OTHER web browser do you have on your unidentified brand
and model of smartphone?

I do not know the answer offhand - but I ran a search to help the OP.

If "mobile data" is the concern, and if browser use is OK with wi-fi then
NetGuard will stop any browser from using mobile data if that's desired.

I understand that it depends on the OP's use model though, as it may very
well be that the OP wants to use the browser with mobile data but just not
a lot of mobile data. If that's the case, then I ran a search for that.

Since everyone on T-Mobile USA (as far as I know) has unlimited free
cellular data, I'm not one for running the test, but a quick search found
that there are browsers which allow the user to toggle images & videos.

Apparently Opera Mini allows you to toggle image loading, and it even has
"extreme mode" to compress content aggressively.

Apparently Firefox on Android also has a "data saver" setting where you can
choose to load images only over Wi-Fi for example.

There is an extension called uBlock Origin for Firefox and Kiwi browsers
that can be configured to block media like images and video above a certain
size threshold.

In addition, another search found that in Chrome for Android there is a
setting for "Bandwidth Management" where you can uncheck "Load images".

For the OP, I did not test any of these (as everyone I know on T-Mobile has
unlimited data already) but if you test these out, please let the rest of
the team know what you settled upon as we are all learning from each other.