adblocking: advertising accounts for half of data used to read articles /

Published at 2016-03-16 16:55:00

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Publisher pages are ‘bloated’,says report by Enders Analysis that finds 18% to 79% of data downloaded on mobiles is from adsAdvertising could account for about half of data usage for people reading articles on their smartphones, according to a study by Enders Analysis. The small-scale study looked at six unnamed “approved publishers”, and both with and without an adblocker,and found that anywhere between 18% and 79% of the data downloaded was from ads. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com