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You’re not the general public. Most people don’t even use ad blockers. Those of us on HN are a different breed in that regard. Also, even clicking it and then
by aidos 5y ago
You’re not the general public. Most people don’t even use ad blockers. Those of us on HN are a different breed in that regard.
Also, even clicking it and then returning later works for the advertisers.
- Retric 5y agoHalf of men aged 16-24 use ad blockers, so it’s not uncommon either.
- throwaway2037 5y agoI couldn't believe this, but then I did some Googling. I found this PR post: https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users I'm not sure how accurate are these figures (it is an obvious "SEO" booster PR post acting like a blog post), but they are way higher than I expected. Even if it was even 25%, I would be shocked. It seems pretty sophisticated for the average user to install an ad blocker. I wonder how they distinguish men and women. When I watch average people "swipe" on the metro, I am always shocked by the amount of adverts on their screen. How can they see or do anything? And some of the apps like Instagram (with doom-scrolling auto-enabled) continuously interrupt users to show them video ads that cannot be skipped. (I see the same for "free" games.) Ugh. Who are these people/zombies!?