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Distrust in Big Tech Fuels Adblocker Usage Among 52% of Americans
- doikor 2y agoMore like the internet is unusable without one. Not being as easily tracked by some mega corp is just a nice bonus.
- morkalork 2y agoWhat, you don't like autoplay videos that overlap content and scroll with the page and have the teeniest tiniest little x to close on every single news and recipe website?
- mysterydip 2y agoThere are some sites (anything on fandom, for example) that always fill the top search results but are literally unusable on my phone unless I turn off javascript. The ratio of useful content to ads is way out of whack.
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- josefritzishere 2y agoThe article does not actually establish distrust is the cause of adblocker use. Only that both are on the rise. Correlation is not causation. People can in the same period use more adblocking because ads are increasingly pernicious.
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- underseacables 2y agoI'm surprised that advertisers do not have more distrust in big tech. I am deeply suspicious of the results that social media gives to advertisers, and I think the number of people who actually see the ads are much, much lower.
- tanseydavid 2y agoClicks the link. Page renders long enough to re-read the title. Then BAM! We see you are using an ad-blocker Somehow I never get used to it and am almost always surprised. I have the same problem when the power goes out -- I continue to try to switch things on even though power has not been restored. (this is due to ingrained habits not some sort of wishful thinking)