This is an amazing data set from the New York Times. If they can name and shame enough other news organizations to be as not-shit as them, this would be a good thing for the mobile internet!
"No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it," Mr. Thompson said. While the Times is "not there yet," he said that if the company has no choice but to prevent non-subscribers who refuse to whitelist the Times from reading the website, "we'll do it."
2.8 megabytes of the page is javascript (largely code which tracks you on sites (Edit: Talking about the 212 javascripts in my screenshot, not the entirety of .js in existence) the site is 23 megabytes after you allow the ads to finish loading several minutes after initial page load, they continue running and downloading forever it seems.
It requests over 2000 elements!
It sets cookies for 20 different domains.
Edit: as I wrote this the page bloated to 8500 requests and 75 megabytes! One single page in 10 minutes.
They hover over the page, are constantly running code in the console tracking god knows what.
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If you don't root your device you can set up a host file for blocking ads in the browser, and also walks you through making your own proxy server.
http://www.digitopoly.org/2015/08/12/how-sure-are-we-that-ad-blocking-software-will-ruin-the-free-internet/
Conclusion: when ad-blockers become widely available on mobile devices then the current equilibrium will have to shift.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html