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by 0x457 1354 days ago
You overestimate how many people use ad blockers.

Many terrified that these "hackers" will steal their credit cards and take in dump in their dinner plate if they install such extension.

When I showed Bypass Paywall plugin to some friends, they all freaked out and looked at it like some dark magic. They look at ad blockers the same.
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tomschwiha 1354 days ago
"During the third quarter of 2021, the average global adblocking rate was estimated at 37 percent. Vietnam and China were top of the class, with a respective adblocking penetration rates of 44.7 and 43.7 percent. This was followed by 41.7 percent of surveyed Indonesians and 40.4 percent of surveyed South Africans admitting to using software blocking online advertising. In the United States, 34.2 percent of internet users said they used adblockers."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/351862/adblocking-usage/

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0x457 1353 days ago
Well, I guess that 1/3-1/2 of people who like to take internal polls also install adblock.
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cogman10 1354 days ago
My assumption is if you are installing chrome, you've got the technical chops to install an ad blocker. Otherwise, you'd be using Edge or Safari.
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0x457 1353 days ago
It's a wrong assumption. Installing chrome requires no brains and google pushing it hard. A tool from my Motherboard maker would install chrome and make it default if you don't go into "advanced" install. You can end up with chrome as a default browser without knowing it. Shit, our work MDM policy installs Chrome on every work laptop.
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netheril96 1354 days ago
If your assumption held true, Chrome's market share would not be so large. Technical people are a minority after all.
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