Android Save Mobile Data on Android with Opera Max

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Opera Max acts as a VPN, which reroutes all unencrypted traffic through its servers, where the data is first compressed and then sent to your Android smartphone. Opera Max is also the first product from the Norwegian browser developer to leverage SkyFire’s Rocket Optimizer technology. Opera had acquired SkyFire Labs in early 2013 for $155 million. Rocket Optimizer can compress nearly every streaming video, including YouTube videos, to realize data savings up to 60%. Additionally, Opera Max also compresses standard web traffic including text and images.

Getting started with Opera Max is pretty simple. After you download the app, you’ll be prompted to grant it permission to act as a VPN. There’s no configuration required beyond this. Opera Max will stay in the background and compress data used by various apps. It can’t compress everything. For example, streaming music as well as encrupted traffic aren’t compressed. However, you should be able to realize about 10% data savings during normal web surfing, and a lot more during video playback. It automatically disables itself when you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network. Opera Max also acts as a pretty neat bandwidth monitor that gives you daily and monthly breakdowns of network bandwidth usage. You can select a app to view its history of data usage, and even prevent that app from using mobile data.

Read more at http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/save-mobile-data-android-opera-max.html
Download: http://www.opera.com/mobile/max/android
 
I used opera browser which probably used this compression tech to save data. It eats up blank spaces a lot. Words stick together. Images are smaller than usual, javascript does not work. They have their own ad block i think. So no or very few ads at all. Does save lots of bandwidth. Close to 70%. Only con is it keeps crashing every now and then.
 
Seems it compresses data for every app.
Sort of like passing all your web traffic data through NSA servers. Wonder if they (opera) keep tabs on users...
 
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