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by dave8088 935 days ago
I think the average NH user overestimates how many people use ad blockers. We’re the minority.
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I'm not sure. I think ad-blockers have become wayyyy more popular. I know a decade ago it was estimated at like ~3% but I would bet that, in the US at least, it's close to or even above 50%. They've just become so popular - I think there were even commercials for some products that blocked ads at one point/ privacy ads.

uBlock origin has 10,000,000+ users on the web store. Adblock has 10,000,000+ users. Adblock Plus has 10,000,000+ users.

I believe that 10,000,000+ means "any number above 10m" and not something like "between 10m and 100m", which means that 10m could potentially be a vast underestimation.

But either way, that's 30m devices, minimum, running adblock. That's 10% of the US population. Just for 3 adblockers I picked at random. And I would not be surprised to find that the number was 10x, even 50x higher than that.

Does it really have 10M+ users, or 10M+ downloads? Because they are not the same thing.

I know I've downloaded uBlock Origin probably about 20 times over the years.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ublock%20origin

"users", which I assume means "devices".

yeah whenever I use someone else family/friend laptop for doing something it usually is without adblock. I ask if its okay and install it for them
It’s roughly 30-40% world wide and latest stats in the US say between 25 and 35%.

I don’t know if people are overestimating but it sure as shit does surprise me each and every day.

I think some PM at google saw that 50% of users use adblock on https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users and said "hey, if we block ads, revenue will double".

also re adblock users being the minority, i think if we were, google a 1T company won't bother with this. It has to be a large chunk of their viewers.