alt Hacker NewsI wonder how much money is wasted just transmitting ads over the internet. Like I get websites are getting paid for displaying them but imagine how much cheaper things would be if ads weren't jacking up demands for bandwidth.
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It's not wasted bandwidth; we've reached this level of ads because brands have realized that brainwashing the populace via ads to make them want their brand is cheaper than building a better product, so the bandwidth is a small price to pay for brainwashing people.
If we didn't have ads, people would not only need less bandwidth, they'd buy less physical junk, and quite possibly be happier for it.
Estimates suggest that between 1/3 and 1/2 of all Internet users in the U.S. use an ad blocker.
Now that we have auto play video ads? Most of it.
Money wasted by the user on a data contract is a gain for the carrier.