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AdAge: Phone Carriers Asked to Block Ads From Consumers’ Data Charges
An ad-blocking company used a full-page ad in Monday’s Financial Times to target yet another aspect of digital advertising that consumers might not appreciate: the impact of ad tech on their mobile-phone bills.
“Mobile ads consume 50% of the data mobile subscribers pay for,” the ad says. “Advertisers make billions in mobile advertising. Consumers should not have to subsidize their business.”
The same day Google circumvents AdBlock Plus on desktop Google Chrome. http://9to5google.com/2015/09/.....ck-bypass/
“Advertisers make billions in mobile advertising”
They don’t. Thats the problem.
Nefarious adtech companies make all the money.