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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Do many real life users even know about ad blockers?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

YouTube seems to think so

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 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] 4 points 9 months 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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