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You have to realize that "most people around you" are probably not representative of internet users at large. With the current state of things, browsers would p

You have to realize that "most people around you" are probably not representative of internet users at large. With the current state of things, browsers would probably need to have implemented these features for a couple years before most people get used to using them for sharing.

darklajid 14y ago
You're perfectly right - and I do realize that. On the other hand: I'm part of the group of people that installs/defines other setups (for friends, family - people that don't bother). All of those will never see these 'share' buttons, because _I_ decide they are overused and often harmful. I guess at one point AdBlock was used by a minority as well, but now it its userbase is huge. I predict (and of course I might be very wrong about this, I don't claim to know the future here) that with the current (over-)usage of 'share' thingies we'll see the same scenario. It starts off as reasonable (simple ads), becomes annoying/slows down the reading experience/hides content (sounds familiar?) and will be despised by more and more users until even people outside of my (and similar minded people's) influence find a solution on LifeHacker on how to avoid these things. And frankly, that 'people getting used to them' argument seems weak. There are gazillion different (and most ugly, from this particular pov) ways to present a 'share' sidebar or somesuch thing. It's hardly what I'd call a unified and well-defined experience.
- icebraining 14y ago
  I guess at one point AdBlock was used by a minority as well, but now it its userbase is huge. But still a minority. Adblock for Chrome has ~10M users, Chrome itself has more than 310 million. That's just a little over 3%. EDIT: apparently, ADP has 5M more, which means the total is still less than 5%.
  - darklajid 14y ago
    Plus the users of my browser of choice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/statistics/?last=30 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/... Certainly no majority overall, but a huge number of people that never look at ads, because .. ads sucked too much.

darklajid 14y ago

You're perfectly right - and I do realize that. On the other hand: I'm part of the group of people that installs/defines other setups (for friends, family - people that don't bother). All of those will never see these 'share' buttons, because _I_ decide they are overused and often harmful. I guess at one point AdBlock was used by a minority as well, but now it its userbase is huge. I predict (and of course I might be very wrong about this, I don't claim to know the future here) that with the current (over-)usage of 'share' thingies we'll see the same scenario. It starts off as reasonable (simple ads), becomes annoying/slows down the reading experience/hides content (sounds familiar?) and will be despised by more and more users until even people outside of my (and similar minded people's) influence find a solution on LifeHacker on how to avoid these things. And frankly, that 'people getting used to them' argument seems weak. There are gazillion different (and most ugly, from this particular pov) ways to present a 'share' sidebar or somesuch thing. It's hardly what I'd call a unified and well-defined experience.

icebraining 14y ago
I guess at one point AdBlock was used by a minority as well, but now it its userbase is huge. But still a minority. Adblock for Chrome has ~10M users, Chrome itself has more than 310 million. That's just a little over 3%. EDIT: apparently, ADP has 5M more, which means the total is still less than 5%.
- darklajid 14y ago
  Plus the users of my browser of choice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/statistics/?last=30 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/... Certainly no majority overall, but a huge number of people that never look at ads, because .. ads sucked too much.