I have firefox configured to show no images because I’m on a limited connection. I think the only thing I’ve changed w.r.t. my usage habits recently is to start using Lemmy again. I’m chewing through bandwidth credit quite fast, like ¼—⅓gb in a day. Does it seem possible that Lemmy would cause that even when images are disabled in firefox? I might have to lay off lemmy a few days and see how it goes.
BTW, I only just now disabled “show avatars” in the Lemmy settings, but I don’t expect that to make any difference if my browser was already configured not to show images.
Are you sure it’s not just hiding the images but still loading them for layout purposes?
Is this mobile Firefox or desktop Firefox? If desktop, I’d recommend opening the dev tools and looking at the network tab there to see what it loads.
It otherwise mostly do JSON API calls, and while some are not exactly optimal, I wouldn’t expect 300MB just for API calls… It’s about the data usage I used to have browsing Reddit and loading a fair bit of images and websites.
No, in fact this is my concern. It’s hard to know considering javascript is in the mix.
I should have been more clear-- it’s actually Tor Browser on the desktop. I said firefox to simplify, but then it occurred to me it could be relevant. Although I think the tor overhead is negligible.