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Why You Should Enable Data Saver In Chrome For Android Right Now

There is no doubt that Google is certainly the top company which understands the significant of online video content. With people watching 1 billion hours of video every week, there is a great potential in this part.

As majority of people use mobile phones to watch videos anywhere, this puts a huge onus on their mobile data plans. Google definitely understands this and strives to lend help by launching Chrome 52 for Android.

The latest Chrome 52 is meant to feature fabulous video enhancements, such as improved speed for video playback. Earlier to this version, there was a delay of 1-2 seconds between tapping the play button and video start.
Most importantly, this version has a Data Saver feature to put a control on your data usage.

How Data Saver works

Data Saver is typically a feature this a part of Chrome for Android for quite some time. When the site is loaded on your phone, the site is first compressed on a server before downloaded to Chrome on your device, therefore reducing the data usage on your phone.
You may not believe but Data Saver is known to reduce your data consumption in Chrome considerably. According to a study, it can save up to 21% of data on loading of 15 web pages.

How to switch on Data Saver

Data Saver is a feature that comes inbuilt in Chrome on Android. To enable Data Saver on Chrome OS or in a Chrome desktop browser, you need to install the official Data Saver extension.
To enable Data Saver on Android:

• Launch Chrome and press the action overflow button (three vertical dots) in the upper right corner.
• Go to Settings and select Data Saver under Advanced.
• Click the toggle switch to move it to the On position.
By enabling this, you can choose to save huge amount of data consumed during the loading of web pages.

Get Chrome 51 for Android today

It is really unfortunate that Chrome 52 is not available for everyone.
In current version of Chrome, you will see the version 51 of Chrome on Google Play Store. If you enable Data Saver using Settings, you can expect to get video compression automatically when Chrome gets updated to the 52 version.

However, if you are not comfortable for waiting, you can choose to download the Chrome Beta app using Google Play. Chrome was last updated on July 26 with version 52.0.2743.91 and encompasses the new version of Data Saver and the video playback features.

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