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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

No, raw bandwidth savings would likely be very significant. You do realize that for many webpages the ads are most of the bandwidth? On my network (I have capped internet so this is important) if I run dns ad blocking my total bandwidth is 40% less.

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[–] sonstwas@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm not sure whether it makes sense trying to discuss with you but let's try...

You couldn't know how much traffic you saved because you didn't load the ad. The ad could be 1KB, 1MB or 1GB, but because you didn't load it you wouldn't know it's size. Without knowing it's size, you wouldn't be able to calculate the savings.

As mentioned somewhere is in the thread you would have to directly compare two machines visiting the same pages and even then it's probably only approximate because both machines might get served different ads.

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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago*

I’ve compared average monthly bandwidth before and after implementation of dns based ad blocking and it has reduced my usage from anywhere from 33% to 45%.

They have been implying that ad blocking only saves the dns request, which is the most ridiculous ignorant claim I’ve ever seen.