this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
217 points (97.0% liked)
Technik
885 readers
2 users here now
die Community für alles, was man als Technik beschreiben kann
the community for everything you could describe as technology
Beiträge auf Deutsch oder Englisch
Posts in German or English
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Use VPN. Most of the fake consumed data comes from ISP recognizing your activity
What?
VPN encryption increases your network usage.
There are even shady plans where only Whatsapp is infinite, which will not work with a VPN. It is useless but thought it was interesting.
Yes of course. I am talking about "unlimited Whatsapp" cell data contracts, which make me wanna cry but they exist.
The network provider monitors all your outgoing requests (probably only if you also dont use private DNS) and allows Whatsapp requests unlimited.
If you never directly connect to whatsappdotcom then they dont give you that bonus.
Using a VPN to browse the internet for security reasons is IMHO snake oil.
Ad traffic is still generated, even if it's going through the VPN.
Using end-to-end encrypted connections via HTTPS is much more important.
Also making sure your browser is not easy fingerprintable.