iOS/Android: With mobile data caps becoming ubiquitous, anything you could do to reduce data consumption helps.

To turn this off, go to Chrome’s options > Advanced > Bandwidth > Preload webpages.

you’re free to choose to either disable it entirely, or only preload webpages while on Wi-Fi.

This should help save you some data.

The other option, which is available for both Android and iOS, is data compression.

In iOS, this can be found under the same Bandwidth menu.

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