Claim: Ads cost iPhone users $8 billion a year

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Medium / Rob Leathern / Apr 13, 2016

An assumption-laden calculator to estimate how much mobile ads are costing users in data charges. —JB

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Benton, Joshua. "Claim: Ads cost iPhone users $8 billion a year." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 Apr. 2016. Web. 26 Mar. 2025.

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Benton, J. (2016, Apr. 13). Claim: Ads cost iPhone users $8 billion a year. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 26, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/shitty-ads-cost-iphone-users-8-billion-a-year/

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Benton, Joshua. "Claim: Ads cost iPhone users $8 billion a year." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 13, 2016. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/shitty-ads-cost-iphone-users-8-billion-a-year/.

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