You might be interested in an earlier post by axod, where he said that only 5% or so really blocks ads. It's just a very vocal minority. Edit: Seems it was 6%,

You might be interested in an earlier post by axod, where he said that only 5% or so really blocks ads. It's just a very vocal minority. Edit: Seems it was 6%, amongst Firefox users. The post is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526771 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526771 2nd edit: And this describes the entire experiment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604437 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604437