I've solved this by mostly not even using most sites on mobile anyway. The vast majority of whatever dreck is served up is purely worthless anyway, social network-powered chum, listicle nonsense, or whatever does load up reflows eleventy times and crashes the tab. This link included. What little is left beyond that is just shallow information that you can mostly get from the original sources (this link included).
Ads chew through half of mobile data
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#22I'm using DNS66 on Android to block ads at the DNS level. I wouldn't browse on mobile without it.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Saving the article text locally and gzipping it (which lacks html tags, but should be approximately right), it's ~1.5 kB. So 2kB for the article and say 5kB for a cacheable site-wide template is what things "ought" to be. My 1GB mobile data plan should be enough to read at least 10s of thousands of pages in a month. Instead at 60MB, I could read... 16. Naturally I never use mobile data, and my only real use for a pho…
I’m due for a new phone and I’m strongly considering going to a dumb phone with a tablet around the house for browsing. I can carry a Kindle or something to kill time waiting for a train.
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#24I love that the mobile version of the brave browser tells you how much data it saved you and how much time too.
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#25A lot of web pages only work for me on my iPhone if I use reader mode. Otherwise, the page keeps resetting over and over again. Firefox, but I assume Safari is probably the same, since Apple mandates they all be based on WebKit.
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#26This is the #1 reason for ad blocking in Eastern Europe and Asia (eg dolphin browser). It’s also why the current “solutions” big tech is providing viz. privacy and non-annoying ads doesn’t move the needle there.
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#27This reminds me of the very first prosecution against "Hackers"
according to the lore of Bruce Stirling [0].
Since there were no cyber-laws to charge trespassers on digital estate the intruders were charged with "stealing electricity".
Perhaps we forget that ads are also a crime of resource misappropriation. Advertisers are not like vampires that are off the hook if you invite them in.
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#28I think ads on mobile apps is a much bigger problem for these users.
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#29"Don't worry. Now that net neutrality is certainly no longer a thing, arrangements can be made for adtech companies to pay ISPs directly to zero-rate their traffic. You won't benefit from this with any less ads or tracking, but your Internet bill may increase slightly less over time, at least until it's as high as your cable bill used to be."
Ridiculous thoughts from my grandmother. I disagree. People still watch TV even though there are ad breaks, ads on top of the show you are watching, and product placement within the TV shows. People clearly want ads otherwise they would use alternate means to get the information, such as DVDs, books, libraries, non-online classes, or seminars. If mobile data pricing goes up and the cost of ads to the end user is too high, the free market can sort it out. Honestly it's hard for me not to believe that blocking ads is anti-capitalist and against the free speech rights of advertising companies.
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#30"Don't worry. Now that net neutrality is certainly no longer a thing, arrangements can be made for adtech companies to pay ISPs directly to zero-rate their traffic. You won't benefit from this with any less ads or tracking, but your Internet bill may increase slightly less over time, at least until it's as high as your cable bill used to be." Ridiculous thoughts from my grandmother. I disagree. People still watch TV…
Good one!