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It might be 1%, best case. Most people are just clueless and think loads of ads are normal. Talking to them about ad-blockers usually goes nowhere in my exper
by midoridensha 4y ago
It might be 1%, best case. Most people are just clueless and think loads of ads are normal. Talking to them about ad-blockers usually goes nowhere in my experience. They don't even know what browser they're using; they just click on the Chrome icon and think it's the "internet icon".
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- notriddle 4y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2019/03/19/47-percent-of-consumers-are-blocking-ads/?sh=694ad2b72037 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2019/03/19/47-percent-o...
- kmlx 4y agoMV3 doesn't stop anyone blocking ads. i've been running exclusively on Safari for years now. zero ads.
- saagarjha 4y agoIt will when mainstream browsers adopt Manifest v3 and ads get smarter.
- erinnh 4y agoI'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm always surprised when people say they never get ads on Safari. Its one of my major annoyances, that sometimes I do get ads on my iPhone, even with Ad-blockers.
- joshmanders 4y agoI've almost forgot what having ads in my browser was like using AdGuard for Safari on my MacBook but it seems to miss a lot on my iPhone.
- midoridensha 4y agoYeah, almost everyone will just keep using the reduced-feature ad-blockers that result from MV3.
- Nathanba 4y agoI think you are underestimating how annoying ads are. I was in a german forum today on my mobile phone and the ads jumped into view for a second and then jumped back out again while I was scrolling. I can't imagine that anyone puts up with this for long. I thought that most people would stay with inferior adblockers but it only takes a couple of such extremely annoying ads to make it through for you to start googling for an improvement.
- midoridensha 4y ago>I think you are underestimating how annoying ads are. I think you're underestimating just how much annoyance the general public will put up with. Look at how popular streaming services are, even though they're constantly removing content. I see people complain about it all the time, but they keep signing up for more services.
- Already__Taken 4y agowell currently it blocks youtube ads, if that changes many, many will be moving.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoThere's no need to convince them. Just install Firefox with uBlock Orign on their machine and set it as default. I guarantee they'll enjoy the new and improved web.
- christophilus 4y agoCan confirm. I helped my dad switch from a Chromebook to an M1 MacBook Air. He made the comment that it was like going from a moped to a Cadillac. I thought he was talking about how good the Mac is. But he was in fact talking about the fact that I had installed a default browser with ad-blockers.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoYeah. I install uBlock Origin on every browser I come across. Everybody tells me how much better the web is afterwards. Most of the time they can't even articulate why. I know why.
- kgwxd 4y agoChrome or Edge will end up their default browser in less than month through some tricky dark pattern.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoInstall uBlock Origin on those browsers too. It's not perfect but will still significantly improve the status quo.