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Only 13%? (Just kidding!) Serious question now: how do we get this number to rise to 50%? How about 80% or 95%? I'm been on a quest for a long time now to con
by sdwolfz 6y ago
Only 13%? (Just kidding!)
Serious question now: how do we get this number to rise to 50%? How about 80% or 95%?
I'm been on a quest for a long time now to convince people I know to install ublock origin on their browsers, but it seems to be a hard sell, even among more tech-literate people, the effort to convince them is non trivial. They stick with it after I install it for them, and they use it everywhere themselves after a while, and thank me for it, it's just that getting them to experience it makes them go defensive. What gets them is not improved privacy, nor tracking removal, but no longer having to deal with video ads on YouTube, or those embarrassing naked people or viagra banner ads on websites, like Yahoo mail.
So basically privacy is an afterthought, a nice to have consequence, as it's not an immediate visible part of the experience for them.
- shawabawa3 6y agoThe problem is that people still think of ad blocking as similar to piracy instead of as a security or privacy tool The other problem is that "AdBlock" used to be the standard ad-blocking tool, but now has been taken over by advertisers and allows "non-intrusive" ads, such as google
- sdwolfz 6y agoTrue, some more daring people go to google and search for "adblock" when I tell then they should install an adblocker, and I have to correct them and pitch "ublock origin", and that's when the defensive stance happens. They ask: "Why? Why not adblock? What's the difference? There's also an ublock without the origin part in the name, why is that, why use the other? it has the same logo..."
- liotier 6y agoDo it at the nameserver: OPNsense's Unbound blacklists do most of the job for my whole network - in particular it covers tablets, where ad blockers are a rarer occurrence than on desktop.