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> People who hate ads tend to say fuck you, I'm blocking the ads but taking the bandwidth anyway. You ever see stats on ads taking the bandwidth? http://betan
by adekok 11y ago
> People who hate ads tend to say fuck you, I'm blocking the ads but taking the bandwidth anyway.
You ever see stats on ads taking the bandwidth?
http://betanews.com/2015/08/25/ad-blocker-crystal-massively-reduces-bandwidth-usage-and-page-load-times-in-ios-9/ http://betanews.com/2015/08/25/ad-blocker-crystal-massively-...
The ad vendors business model depends on the user paying for the ads. Why in living hell are they complaining? I am subsidizing their crappy business model. If I want to stop subsidizing them, it's my right.
- thesteamboat 11y agoI think this link was posted here a little while ago: https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-from-mobile-ads-than-publishers-are-d5d3c0827b39 https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-fro... The article is exactly what it says on the tin: You are charged more (roughly 16x) for the data inherent in the ad than the publisher makes for serving it. In an ideal world with perfect coordination, we'd agree to just directly send the publisher a quarter of what the current ad data costs us, and everybody relevant wins.
- DanBC 11y agoSure, block ads. But why then visit those same sites that try to serve ads? Those sites clearly don't care about you, so why do you want to give them the pageviews?