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I'm on mobile, not using an ad blocker, and I still got this message... really Bloomberg...?

Also by performance being affected perhaps they are referring to the 5 extra secondtheys make you wait.

Same here. And of course the ads themselves bog down the page so that it's hard to read even after their popup.

I'm on a smartphone (Android 6.01) and I am using ad blocker and I'm not getting any warning.

My AdBlocker must have blocked that because I never saw it either.

Performance as in ad performance as in impressions as in money. for them. Their performance, not yours.

Kind of how Android is "open" to OEMs, not you.

Is reflashing your phone so hard?

It is if the bootloader is locked.

Heck, I had to go out of my way and adblock the animated gif at the top of the article, it was pegging my processor for some reason.

Heh, I guess a page loading faster could be an adverse affect, depending on perspective.