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This is so odd. They say : "While we welcome the willingness to tackle annoying ads, the CBA's criteria do not address a key reason many of us install ad blocke

This is so odd. They say : "While we welcome the willingness to tackle annoying ads, the CBA's criteria do not address a key reason many of us install ad blockers: to protect ourselves against the non-consensual tracking and surveillance that permeates the advertising ecosystem operated by the members of the CBA." "many" is a link to https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/09/02/why-people-use-ad-blockers/ https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/09/02/why-people-use-ad-b... Except that page shows that "to avoid being tracked" is actually relatively low on the list of reasons people use ad blockers compared to the annoying advertising issues, malware, etc?

bobajeff 9y ago
It's relatively low but it's not insignificant. It's still about 39%. Also 60% say its to avoid "intrusive ads".
taneq 9y ago
Two out of five people on the internet certainly qualifies as "many", just not "most". All of the reasons listed in that survey are just aspects of a single overarching reason to block ads, which is that ads universally degrade your experience of the internet.