Store pages in app use enormous amounts of data (~50 MB) because of gifs

[Eplekongen]

I was just going through all my wishlisted games in the android app and suddenly got a data limit warning, and noticed that Steam had used over a gigabyte of date in just a few minutes.

It seems store pages are allowed up to 50 MB of content, and a lot of them use all of that that to add huge gifs. This means navigating to just 10 games uses up to 500 MB of data.

Take the store page for Moss for example. It is 54.1 MB, where a whopping 48.6 MB are gifs. (Video autoplay is turned off btw).

There needs to be some limit on page size on mobile data. At least give the option to block huge gifs like this. Ideally, turn them into a still image that can be clicked to "play" the gif.

In the end I've blocked the steam app from using mobile date at all. But of course this means I can't get push notifications and such.

[Aozora]

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