Ublock origin has the option to block all media over a certain size and JavaScript. The browser will never request the files so it will be faster (as long as it isn't inline scripts)

Alternatively https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero/

Had to get on our developers as our main website was over 50MB on load. They hadn’t optimized any images and were using size tags to resize a 4K image down to a thumbnail.

Lynx or w3m or something in Termux? (Installing Termux would be best somewhere you can get faster internet, like a library or business, etc)

I've never tried it, but it's on my todo list: Browsh

Try the uMatrix plugin. It allows you to dis- or enable things like scripts and images on a per-site basis.

I would think that whatever browser you use would, presumably, make little difference to how much data a website tries to send you? It would only change what’s displayed. (But happy to be corrected on that by someone more knowledgeable.)

If your connection really is limited to such a slow speed, you might need to find a proxy server that strips out as much as possible before it reaches you.

Regardless of any browser, consider that there's probably a half dozen background programs using the internet connection as well. You'll want to install something like a firewall that you can turn on that blocks all connections except from some allowlisted apps you currently want to use. A simple message check from a handful of installed messengers can occupy that connection for a few seconds while you're trying to load something that's much more important to you right now in the browser

(that^ was my situation this morning on ~12kbps 2G network, trying to load my ~4KB grocery list webapp in the grocery store with bad reception... ended up connecting to the store WiFi and sold my soul with a checkbox ^^')

Add in a weather app updating, system update check, some app trying to download a new version, the keyboard sending telemetry or downloading new words, the OS trying to load a "generate 204" page to detect whether there is connectivity, the GNSS subsystem loading SUPL data for positioning, Google submitting its WiFi scan data to either obtain a location or improve their service, calendar sync...

ik it's proprietary shitware but opera mini and puffin could potentially help

Privacy Browser

Is there any way to disable image on firefox? Or using opera mini

Doesn’t adnauseum use more internet because it „clicks“ on all the ads?

Is there an internet for this sort of thing?

Reducing data usage in general would be nice but too many websites just openly disrespect their users by using far too much bandwidth.

Maybe a terminal based browser like lynx, w3m, links2, browsh and the like. They are html only so it is going to limit the websites you can easily or reasonably access but it'll work with an infinitesimal data connection.

You can kind of use delta chat with a preview bot. Delta Chat works extremely well on low bandwidth so even if it takes a long time, you’ll eventually get the website, unlike in browsers in my experience

Not an open ended question