• @AnUnusualRelic
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      1511 months ago

      Do many real life users even know about ad blockers?

        • @[email protected]
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          3711 months ago

          YouTube has been running a successful awareness campaign for those that didn’t know about Adblockers.

      • @[email protected]
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        1611 months ago

        The reason there’s such a pushback against them is because they’ve become popular. It used to be a secret amongst nerds; now it’s common even on the iPhone.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        I once saw stats from a 2015 study that said 40% of people on the internet used ad blockers. Who knows how that’s changed since then, but as somebody else said, the majority of people who don’t probably don’t even know that you can block ads, otherwise they’d probably be using it.

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      1211 months ago

      Given the amount of people all too happy to use Chrome on Android where you can’t block ads easily, I doubt it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1311 months ago

        That’s usually not because they don’t care but because they don’t know that ads can be blocked on the phone as well

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          211 months ago

          They don’t make the effort to find out.

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        111 months ago

        I use ublock origin on firefox on android, wasnt that hard.