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Aren’t browser-extension ad blockers (uBlock Origin, AdBlock, etc.) not helpful for solving this problem? As far as I’m aware, by the time the ad can be blocked by such programs, you have already consumed the data. Wouldn’t a better solution be DNS sinkholing, like PiHole or AdGuard Home?
Also add security and privacy costs to this.
I question the methodology of this: Enders used a browser that mimicked an iPhone 6 and accessed a total of eight "popular" news sites (though they didn't confirm what these were)." 'iPhone 6', an phone that's 10 years old. A sample size of 8 and undisclosed.
Well, nextpit.com, you're really no better than the rest of them. This could have been a few kilobytes of static html...
This is desktop, not mobile, but: I turned off ad blockers, scrolled to the bottom, and waited. 60.9MB transferred https://imgur.com/a/ftGkR3m . They are in fact worse than the rest of them. It is still going up as the ads rotate. I count 11 ad placements.
Opening this page 6 and a half times would exceed the monthly download limit on the first broadband internet plan my family had about twenty years ago in Australia.
GrapheneOS, Firefox/Mull and uBlock Origin. Nope. :)
Ads? Which ads? None on my devices at least. Block the filth already, there is no reason to subject yourself or your family to it. Get a device which is under your own control - nothing made by Apple, get an Android device on which you install something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS or another similar AOSP-derived distribution, do not use unmodified stock Android distributions - and install several layers of content b…