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A comment on Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization. Parent comment

Re:Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance a... by cirenehc on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:29PM (#18008586)
"Publishers are probably costing their audience more in battery life and bandwidth than they are ever making from the ad they are showing". Have you done any calculation? The bandwidth/battery life cost for serving JS negligible. It's nothing compare to fetching/rendering images/videos, or even your mobile OS.
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Re:Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance a... by criddell on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:56PM (#18009415)
I've done some rough calculations. Just going by bandwidth, I pay $10 / GB (Google Fi). For that page with 500 words that I want to read that's been bloated out with 5 MB of ads and tracking script, I'm paying 5 cents.
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