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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They will care about their adblocker no longer working

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do many real life users even know about ad blockers?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's much much higher than I would have expected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I expected it to be 10% or less. I was very surprised.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They don't make the effort to find out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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