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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/technology/personaltech/ad-blockers-mobile-iphone-browsers.html?referer=http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html?_r=0

On popular news sites, 40% to 80% of the data your phone downloads is the ads.

Blockers speed site loading, reduce data usage, and slightly improve battery life.
Like with most features, iOS is behind Android, but they pretend they invented it when they finally catch up.
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