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Ads chew through half of mobile data
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Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
>since Apple mandates they all be based on WebKit. Unless you’re a EU citizen
I haven’t seen anything about this in a while. Do EU builds of Firefox actually exist yet? (Running on gecko)
Nothing is published yet. Whatever gecko build might be there might be whithering away on the vine, I don't believe Mozilla cares for supporting it just for the EU.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#123A 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.
sucks to not have ublock origin.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#124Ad people also don’t even care about best practices. Many times years ago we’d see multi meg static banner ads. The situation isn’t better today, massive gifs are still used in place of video.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#125ads aren't chewing though my mobile data. I generally don't go to any sites with ads. The few times I open a link and it's covered in ads I close the link.
The article was not written specifically about you as an individual. You might be confusing this discussion board with your e-mail inbox?
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#126Maybe the ISP should start charging the ad network instead of the user for ad traffic. Then they can start blocking the ads of people who don't pay. The user, who pays for the service, is getting no value out of the ads and the advertiser is freeloading the ISP's technical infrastructure and userbase.
The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads.
You may hate ads, we all do, but at least recognize the hand that feeds you. The alternative is subscriptions for everything, and as far as I can tell that is far less popular than the ad model we have.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
What web pages are you seeking out? I feel like I read hacker news, the New York Times and some local Reddit channels more or less. Search is so squirrelly and the passion GeoCities pages or Uni home pages are long gone, and blogs are corrupted by insidious sponsor endorsements, let alone ads?
What do you mean? Reddit and Hacker News are link aggregators -- aren't you clicking the links? or are you only reading the comments? There's a long tail of random websites linked to by sites like this one -- like the one in the OP!
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Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#128A 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.
sucks to not have ublock origin.
I suppose, but Safari/Webkit shows that you can get what feels like 95% of the way there with static block lists which are ideal when they are sufficient.
They're faster and they're trustless. The only attack surface of a block list is that someone removes their site from the list.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#129Maybe the ISP should start charging the ad network instead of the user for ad traffic. Then they can start blocking the ads of people who don't pay. The user, who pays for the service, is getting no value out of the ads and the advertiser is freeloading the ISP's technical infrastructure and userbase.
The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads. You may hate ads, we all do, but at least recognize the hand that feeds you. The alternative is subscriptions for everything, and as far as I can tell that is far less popular than the ad model we have.
> The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads.
I disagree. The value I get from the Internet is almost entirely from non-ad-driven sources. The ad-driven stuff is very low value to me.
Re: Ads chew through half of mobile data
#130Well, nextpit.com, you're really no better than the rest of them. This could have been a few kilobytes of static html...
Yeah I thought the same.
Even though I use an adblocker, I got a huge table showing three Amazon products that took more space screen than any of the text block of the actual article.
I can't even imagine how the site looks like without an adblocker...