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by feedmeseymour 2998 days ago
Every person I know that uses an ad blocker (5, including myself) does it to prevent tracking.

In fact, I want to white list certain websites (a dozen or so) to continue seeing ads, but I don’t want to because I know that they are likely using Google for their ads and I don’t want Google’s little grabbling hands tracking me.

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I work in IT and I don't know anyone(myself included) who uses ad blockers to block tracking. It's just about the annoying ads for me.
So 5 people out of how many million? Just Adblock Plus on Chrome has over 10,000,000 installs, and "most" of 10,000,000 is a big number. Even bigger when you say "not using it for ad blocking"
The #1 reason I use adblock is to block youtube ads.