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Everyone feels the pain: Publisher gets paid on a $1 CPM basis while Cedato gets paid $5-10 CPM and pockets the difference. Advertiser thinks they paid for qu

• erikb 9y ago
  And you can't even install ad blockers on the phone.
  • shakna 9y ago
    Firefox Mobile, uBlock Origin. Adblockers are here.
    • devcpp 9y ago
      Or root and AdAway if you're looking to block them in other apps as well.
    • _pmf_ 9y ago
      Or Brave on Android; it's basically indistinguishable from Chrome (or whatever the Android standard browser currently is called).
      • bnolsen 9y ago
        Just tried this. Other than having to redo all my forums passwords again this browser looks to be a winner. On my phone firefox ran very slowly and hogged too many resources.
        • boyce 9y ago
          Try nightly - 57 feels like it has big performance gains on my ageing 1+
  • peteretep 9y ago
    My iPhone has them just fine, and Android being less locked down makes me think it probably does too
    • new299 9y ago
      It's possible it's more likely on Android. However I don't think it's a given that it will be prompted by Google, or will continue to be the case. Google is an advertising company. Android, does not make money through licensing. It makes money by being a vehicle for advertising. Apple on the other hand, make money through selling products. Advertising (on the web) shouldn't make much difference to them, and helps put pressure on the competing platform as well as Adblocking being a potentially valuable feature to help sell their products.
    • erikb 9y ago
      How? I can't install plugins into my Chrome on iPhone 6s. And you can't switch the default browser so it only helps in 30 % of the cases (when you are not inside Facebook/Twitter/etc and when you are not clicking a link that opens the default browser)
  • kbart 9y ago
    "And you can't even install ad blockers on the phone." Nonsense. I've been using Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android for years. There are even browsers/add-ons that can disable JavaScript completely, but I find it too much of a hassle.
    • erikb 9y ago
      my mistake, can't edit my comment now. *iphone I mean
      • pmontra 9y ago
        "How to block ads on iPhone and iPad" http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-block-ads-on-iphone-ipad-3627089/ http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-block-ads-on-ip...
      • briandear 9y ago
        Crystal for iOS as one example. Safari provides support for adblockers in both mobile and desktop.
  • PeachPlum 9y ago
    But you can install Brendan Eich's ad-blocking Brave browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
    • erikb 9y ago
      I'll try this one on all my phones. Thanks.
  • winterlight 9y ago
    My browsing experience on a mobile phone stepped up greatly since I started using Firefox Focus. You don't even need to mess around with plugins because ad blocking is already a built-in core feature.
  • ljcn 9y ago
    As others have said, now is actually a really rich time for ad/tracker-blocking browsers: * Brave * Firefox Focus * Ghostery to name but three.
• ep103 9y ago
  The only person who cares about that, though, is the audience. Advertisers as a group don't really care that much. Right now, Online Ad Spend is growing industry wide, so fraud like this is just chalked up as an efficiency loss, on growing market. No one else in the chain cares.
  • ec109685 9y ago
    The publisher cares because they delivered a worse experience for user for no $