[TheNewsIsHere]

I think you are unfortunately correct about this.

I am consistently blown away when I inadvertently experience the Internet without ad-blocking. It’s absolute garbage.

I am sad that people are either OK with this or don’t care. For many they don’t know any better, and asking many of those same groups to install and manage plugins is a fraught request.

[hedora]

32.8% of global users use an ad blocker. (33% of Americans.) [1]

Chrome's market share is about 65% [2]. If their recent manifest changes eventually break ad blocking (which seems to be the goal), it'll lose a bunch of market share (I guess they're optimizing for short-term profit).

[1] https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users [2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share