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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data (www.nextpit.com)

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[–] grue 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day.

20% of connections != 20% of data. The real percentage of data saved depends on whether the files being blocked are larger or smaller on average than the files being allowed through. I doubt that your adblocker gives you the latter statistic (because I'm pretty sure it would have to at least start to request each file to query the file size), but it'd be cool if it did.

I wouldn't be surprised if, aside from videos, your amount of data saved were a lot higher than 20%.