{"id":4758,"date":"2018-10-23T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:15:15","slug":"google-news-app-bug-is-using-up-gigabytes-of-background-data-without-users-knowledge-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/10\/23\/google-news-app-bug-is-using-up-gigabytes-of-background-data-without-users-knowledge-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users&#8217; Knowledge &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Oh, the joy of proprietary software: <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/10\/23\/0340211\/google-news-app-bug-is-using-up-gigabytes-of-background-data-without-users-knowledge\">Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users&#8217; Knowledge &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Luckily I don&#8217;t have it installed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bug in the Google News app for Android is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/22\/18011028\/google-news-app-bug-background-data-overage-charge\">causing the app to use up excessive amounts of background data<\/a>, leading to overage charges. &#8220;According to dozens of posts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=footer#!topic\/news\/nX1HbXVOUkM;context-place=topicsearchin\/news\/data%2420background\">Google News Help Forum<\/a>, users have been experiencing this issue as early as June,&#8221; reports The Verge. &#8220;The issue was verified and addressed by a Google News community manager in September, stating that the company was investigating and working toward a fix, but the issue is still ongoing.&#8221; From the report: <i> Verge reader Zach Dowdle emailed in with his experience, and screenshots of his app and Wi-Fi data usage: &#8220;The Google News app is randomly using a ridiculous amount of background data without users&#8217; knowledge. The app burned through over 12 gigs of data on my phone while I slept and my Wi-Fi had disconnected. It lead to $75 in overage charges.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to several users, the app burned through mobile data despite having &#8220;Download via Wi-Fi&#8221; turned on in the settings. In some extreme cases, the Google News app used up to 24GB of data, leading to overage charges of up to $385, users reported. So far, the only solutions seem to be disabling background data, and deleting the app altogether. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Oh, the joy of proprietary software: Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users&#8217; Knowledge &#8211; Slashdot Luckily I don&#8217;t have it installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/10\/23\/google-news-app-bug-is-using-up-gigabytes-of-background-data-without-users-knowledge-slashdot\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-1eK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5173,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/02\/04\/google-play-store-now-open-for-progressive-web-apps-slashdot\/","url_meta":{"origin":4758,"position":0},"title":"Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps &#8211; Slashdot","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2019-02-04","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps - Slashdot Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store! 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