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Really? I know some people use them, but my impression is that most people do not use ad blockers.

• ddorian43 13y ago
  he is just in a bubble
• vidyesh 13y ago
  You are right, last time I read the highest percentage of ad block users were seen on Gaming related website that was 30%. Gaming, Tech, Adult, Entertainment category websites see the highest adblock users ranging from 30-20%. Other websites go as low as 5%.
• blueskin_ 13y ago
  Ordinary users are starting to catch on too. My parents use one, for example.
• mschuster91 13y ago
  Here (in Germany) almost everyone I know uses Adblock/Adblock plus, and Chrome/FF penetration rate is high, too. Our local IT press also constantly advertises for adblockers and non-IE browsers, too, so it might be a "cultural" issue.
• lostcolony 13y ago
  It's still low, but it IS likely on the rise; at least, I hope so, given how advertisers are not averse to poisoning the well by allowing ads that are distracting, or downright evil. I know I avoided using adblockers (I want to support my favorite websites after all)...until I had one particularly pernicious ad served to me on comics.com that hadn't been vetted, and caused my browser window to minimize, and displayed a popup right over my (Windows) system tray, styled to look like a system alert, indicating my system wasn't secure and I needed to click here and download X. That was the final straw, and I haven't looked back.