They are not chewing through mine, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android too.
After reading the article:
To test 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).
Wow yea great methodology, thanks guys. It really captures your motto of “Rigorous Fearless Independent” especially the first term.
Also good job by Santiago Luque of Nextpit to generalize the result to the maximum possible extent.
Yeah, I can’t imagine raw-dogging the internet like that, even on mobile. If I opened an app or web page, and saw ads, I would just exit the page completely.
I have a setup of about 250 mb worth of blocklists on the home router (openwrt). The adblocker generates a statistic. Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day.
On mobile your can block traffic systemwide too, so not only your browser but also app based adds.
On android just go to settings – network – private dns and chose one provided by mullvad for example:
Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day.
20% of connections != 20% of data. The real percentage of data saved depends on whether the files being blocked are larger or smaller on average than the files being allowed through. I doubt that your adblocker gives you the latter statistic (because I’m pretty sure it would have to at least start to request each file to query the file size), but it’d be cool if it did.
I wouldn’t be surprised if, aside from videos, your amount of data saved were a lot higher than 20%.
They are not chewing through mine, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android too.
After reading the article:
Wow yea great methodology, thanks guys. It really captures your motto of “Rigorous Fearless Independent” especially the first term.
Also good job by Santiago Luque of Nextpit to generalize the result to the maximum possible extent.
Yeah, I can’t imagine raw-dogging the internet like that, even on mobile. If I opened an app or web page, and saw ads, I would just exit the page completely.
Internet without ad blocking is unbearable.
I have a setup of about 250 mb worth of blocklists on the home router (openwrt). The adblocker generates a statistic. Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day. On mobile your can block traffic systemwide too, so not only your browser but also app based adds.
On android just go to settings – network – private dns and chose one provided by mullvad for example:
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
On ios:
https://adityarajsingh.com/dns-over-https-ios/
I use NextHub and NextDNS on iPhone and although it is limited compared to Android, it blocks around 12% of my traffic.
20% of connections != 20% of data. The real percentage of data saved depends on whether the files being blocked are larger or smaller on average than the files being allowed through. I doubt that your adblocker gives you the latter statistic (because I’m pretty sure it would have to at least start to request each file to query the file size), but it’d be cool if it did.
I wouldn’t be surprised if, aside from videos, your amount of data saved were a lot higher than 20%.