NPR's OnPoint has had several internet/web discussions recently. One was on new approaches to providing access & reasonable bandwidth. In some areas (South Africa was mentioned) you can buy a phone and data cheaply, but only access Facebook and a few others .. restricted use for ad revenue for the given sites.
Another was on ad blockers becoming a serious threat to content providers using ads to pay for their service, especially with the iPhone now being able to install ad blockers. This is leading to Google Contributor https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ which lets you ad block but still contribute via a monthly fee. Even weirder, the ad blockers let some ads thru if they pay the ad block service! The latter discussion was particularly interesting due to focusing on fixing the annoyances. On mobile, in particular, the bandwidth and screen size of the ads are horrific. Google is apparently initializing another initiative to require ads to be sensible and mobile friendly. -- Owen
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