Way, way too many websites. I have to research all of them just to use one? I have choice paralysis! The corporations are right, I shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions for myself, and the internet should be like cable.

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    It’s already like this in many countries in Asia. They offer data pacakages that are 50GB (for example) for social media data , and only 1GB for regular internet

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      my former ukrainian data plan only had 100mb per day, but 10gb on Youtube and unlimited social media (e.g. facebook and reddit + messenger apps like viber, signal and telegram)

      to be fair, its not the norm here and it was cheap af back when i was using it (around 1-2$/mo while all other data plans were over 4-6$)

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        also i was using a vpn with an ssn spoofing feature to make it think all of the websites/services i was visiting were Youtube (that only worked for tcp traffic tho, not udp so no gaming)

        and was using telegram bots to download flarge files (there are bots that will take a url and will either return a file located there or a rendered web page)

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      They offer data pacakages that are 50GB (for example) for social media data , and only 1GB for regular internet

      In fairness, social media and streaming are absolute data hogs. I could get by very easily with 1GB for the old school message board internet of the early '00s.

      No idea how anyone uses internet for business purposes, though.

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        Yes, but only the social media that paid to be included in the plan in the first place. That just continues monopolies.