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Uninstalls? Would’ve thought most people savvy to blocker extensions in the first place would know how to disable them for specific troublesome sites, but... (s
by brycewray 3y ago
Uninstalls? Would’ve thought most people savvy to blocker extensions in the first place would know how to disable them for specific troublesome sites, but... (shrug emoji).
- jsnell 3y agoI think the suggestion is that users are uninstalling their current ad blocker in order to install another ad blocker that they hope can still block ads on YouTube, not that they're uninstalling the ad blockers entirely.
- brycewray 3y agoAh, good point — although, given what I’m reading elsewhere about this cat-and-mouse game, they won’t be happy campers for long, if at all.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI wonder what % of users never click the extension's button once the entire time they have it, and if that figure has increased now that all the browsers want to wrangle them up into a folder by default. They might legitimately be unaware that any options besides 'install' and 'uninstall' exists.
- rchaud 3y agothat was a surprising to me as well. Every adblocker extension's UI make it clear that you can disable it for the site you're on.
- happytoexplain 3y agoThe title is misleading: > The available data suggests last month saw a record number of adblockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs as people sought alternatives that wouldn’t trigger YouTube’s dreaded popup.