Ask HN: Do ads push you beyond monthly data caps?

I frequently upload and view video content on my mobile phone because I work as a musician. It frustrates me beyond words that my mobile service provider ("F-Mobile") has data caps on their plans where they de-prioritize my device on towers if I exceed around 25GB each month. They also don't currently offer any plans that do not impose this limit, even though they sold me my plan as unlimited to begin with years ago, (well before the idea of data caps was a thing). The company has a wild tendency to revise our contractual agreements to their favor profit-wise, and I've been paying over $75 a month for unlimited service that has this limit on it.

A funny thought occurred to me, as ads become more and more prevalent, and as speeds increase on mobile devices, our monthly data caps are hitting the limit more faster than ever, and I wonder if all of the ad content really factors into that?

Technically, if ads are pushed constantly to devices, counting that as data we opted into is not fair... Any company or individual could simply push a vast majority of people over their data limits by using HD video on apps like Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and other sites and apps, and technically there is no reliable way to measure or account for where monthly data is spent.

What type of work do you do and are you exceeding your monthly mobile or home internet data "cap"?