WhatsApp desktop application consumes too much data
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I often use my phone as hotspot on my laptop and use WhatsApp desktop application. Sometimes I leave WhatsApp on for many minutes (guesssing here; up to 2 hours). I've recently figured out that WhatsApp consumes too much data and since I'm using my phone's data, how much it consumes matters. I've experimented and recorded the network traffic. You can watch the video where I show this consumption. In one instance (on the video), the app consumes ~20 MB/min while idle (not logged in), and ~33MB/min when logged in. I was not paying attention to the rates while recording the video, so I decided to explicitly record the rates after the video. In the second instance, it was ~10MB/min while idle, and ~14MB when logged in. So, the app consumes 10-20 MB/min while idle, and 15-30 MB/min (idle × ...