Once upon a time, browsing the web on a mobile phone was considered a form of torture so barbaric that it was outlawed by the United Nations. A tiny Norwegian company by the name of Opera tried to make it better in 2005 by launching a new browser called “Opera Mini”. Instead of asking your dinky underpowered feature phone to render websites, Opera would render them on their servers for you, compress the site by 90%, and then send you back the results. Today, Google is announcing that this soft of compression technology is now in Chrome for Android.

Now I know what you’re thinking. Hardcore news junkies and Android fans have known about this data compression feature since April 2013. True as that might be, it was only available to people running Chrome Beta. What’s different is that compression is now available in Chrome stable. That means the hundreds of millions of people out there with Android phones in their pocket will now save data as soon as Chrome updates itself.

There is a small catch, however. Data compression needs to be turned on by the user. Again, for you and me this isn’t a problem, but we’re “savvy” and we’re “digital natives” who know what we’re doing. At some point in the future, I bet Google will turn data compression on by default. When they do, the company will have access to the browsing history of everyone using Android.

If that isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is. All joking aside, use data compression. It’ll reduce your phone bill and make sites render faster.