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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data (www.nextpit.com)

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If you extrapolate from that and suppose that somewhere around half of all internet traffic is ad transmissions, that means that the internet ad industry has about 20 times the carbon emissions of crypto.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

How did you arrive at that number?

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Crypto bad for environment though. Corpo-net good for economy though, so environment never talked about.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Two things can be bad for the environment. Maybe even more.