I have a setup of about 250 mb worth of blocklists on the home router (openwrt). The adblocker generates a statistic. Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day.
On mobile your can block traffic systemwide too, so not only your browser but also app based adds.
On android just go to settings – network – private dns and chose one provided by mullvad for example:
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%.
I have a setup of about 250 mb worth of blocklists on the home router (openwrt). The adblocker generates a statistic. Around 20 percent of all connections get blocked, so that’s my personal traffic saved every day. On mobile your can block traffic systemwide too, so not only your browser but also app based adds.
On android just go to settings – network – private dns and chose one provided by mullvad for example:
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
On ios:
https://adityarajsingh.com/dns-over-https-ios/
I use NextHub and NextDNS on iPhone and although it is limited compared to Android, it blocks around 12% of my traffic.
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%.