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How do you know that it's only a minority of users that are deploying some way of blocking advertisement in their browsers? I'm genuinely interested and I'm ra
by ersii 11y ago
How do you know that it's only a minority of users that are deploying some way of blocking advertisement in their browsers?
I'm genuinely interested and I'm raising the question as you stated it as a matter of fact.
Even if you never installed an adblocker, "Adblock Plus" has been downloaded over 19.5 million times for Firefox, "NoScript" has been downloaded over 2 million times for Firefox.
Sufficient to say, there's an increasing amount of web sites and newspapers that have "adblocking detection" and suggest/beg that you disable it these days.
[1] Full disclosure, I block ads because a lot of site owners go too far. I have no hard feelings about it. Sucks to be them, but what can I do. I whitelist sites that behave and have decent/good content.
- DanBC 11y ago> How do you know that it's only a minority of users > "Adblock Plus" has been downloaded over 19.5 million times for Firefox, "NoScript" has been downloaded over 2 million times for Firefox. Facebook has a billion users. Ad block use is about 2%?
- ersii 11y agoI mostly wanted to indicate that it's a bit unreasonable to assume that because one person (grkvlt) does not install an adblocker - it's safe to assume almost no one does, as insinuated grkvlt's comment (at least by how I interpreted it). That said, of course the usage numbers I quickly retrieved from Mozillas Add-ons for Firefox page - are not conclusive of total adblocker installment. I took two sample add-ons. There are at least a dozen add-ons just for Firefox. Even Firefox itself has adblocking capabilities by the way.