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Comment by isoprophlex | Hacker News Reader

Well, nextpit.com, you're really no better than the rest of them.

This could have been a few kilobytes of static html...

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 phone plan at all at this point is being forced to have SMS for banking.

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.

Question for the thread*: are we at a point where we build apps that chew through ad/user data, but put ourselves in a position to not have our data chewed on?

*Mostly asking because I have come across this sentiment before, not because I think op(s) are engaged in this

All of the people posting about adblockers have certainly done something about their rate of data use.

Is the question “how many of you Adblock users also work in advertising tech?”

I'd do that but a smartphone is unfortunately a great pocket camera. The sweet spot for me would be something like a modern version of the Nokia N95 — great camera, unrestricted OS that lets me write apps in Python or whatever, and terrible web browsing experience.

> 60.9MB transferred

Opening this page 6 and a half times would exceed the monthly download limit on the first broadband internet plan my family had about twenty years ago in Australia.

Blogspam singularity is imminent. Also: this 'article' is from 2016.

On top of that they kindly share all your data with 383 "partners", and you have to click "no" one by one to opt-out

uBlock counter got up to 26 before I was done skimming the article.

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...

I saw no ads with Firefox/ublock origin.

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