<story><title>Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Artlav</author><text>They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.</text></item><item><author>wst_</author><text>I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it&amp;#x27;s muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really, really dumb, but video is actually far more bandwidth efficient than the alternative everyone uses, which are multi-MB GIF files. I don&amp;#x27;t know enough about the file format, but I suspect it would be difficult to download the first frame of a GIF then immediately stop downloading the rest of the file (which would probably be the best of both worlds).</text></comment>
<story><title>Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Artlav</author><text>They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.</text></item><item><author>wst_</author><text>I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it&amp;#x27;s muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I pay 12-15 pounds per month here in the UK, for unlimited calls and internet in the world. (I think in Europe I can call any european number for free, but in outside of it I might be limited to free calls to the UK only.)&lt;p&gt;France was even cheaper with the Free provider. They have 2 euros plans that are useful for most usages. (Internet cap is low but if you use more they charge you cheap fees.)&lt;p&gt;The US prices were insane for not much.</text></comment>