There's a new app Onavo released today that compresses the data sent/received from the iPhone to reduce the overall monthly usage. Pretty interesting concept
http://www.onavo.com/
http://www.onavo.com/
There's a new app Onavo released today that compresses the data sent/received from the iPhone to reduce the overall monthly usage. Pretty interesting concept
http://www.onavo.com/
It is interesting, but who are Onavo?
More importantly, how are they using this offering to make money?
Reading through their privacy policy, there's a lot of "marketing friendly" information that they collect. I'll be sticking with just regular data for the moment anyway!
What Internet traffic does Onavo collect?
"Onavo provides services for reducing data usage of certain mobile phones. To benefit from the Services, your access to the Internet through your mobile phone will be routed through Onavo's servers, which strive to reduce the volume of your downloads, and potentially your uploads as well.
When you use the Services, Onavo will collect information, such as session durations, page impressions, details of your mobile operator, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, the domain name that served you to access the Services, and content types and origins.
Onavo will also store information related to online data or metadata that is routed through Onavo's servers, such as swebpages' addresse, structures, data fields, and images. However, Onavo will not store any content that you upload or download, such as message text, filled-in forms, and data that a website retrieved."
No thanks.