What is Net Usage Item?
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Net Usage is a widget that lets you know how much of your internet usage quota you have left. It mainly supports Australian ISPs where often you are limited by how much you download each month. This extension works by automatically logging in to your ISP's usage page and extracting your monthly usage information. You will need to supply the username and password to your ISPs web portal. See the netusage website for full list of supported ISPs.
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Your data on all websites Needed to fetch/scrape usage information from your ISP's website.
Your tabs and browsing activity Needed to open a new tab to display your ISP's usage page (for the open ISP page option).
User reviews
- Works well for some ISPs, particularly Aussie BB
- Helpful for monitoring bandwidth usage
- Easy to use for quick access to data allowance
- Does not work with multiple ISPs, specifically Bigpond
- Frequent parsing errors and authentication issues
- Limited functionality on certain operating systems like Ubuntu
- Parsing errors
- Issues with Bigpond/Telstra
- General satisfaction for some users in Australia
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Risk impact
Net Usage Item requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Net Usage Item has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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