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Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery

Posted by Soulskill on from the om-nom-nom dept.

judgecorp writes "Here's a reason to pay for smartphone apps: the free versions can spend three times as much energy finding and serving ads as they do serving their actual purpose. Research from a Purdue University scientist found that as much as 75 percent of the energy used by free apps (PDF) goes on accessing location services, finding suitable advertisements and displaying them."

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  1. What ads? by gox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Use free software, don't support them by "seeing ads", support them with direct donations.