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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 77 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I doubt most people use an adblocker.

Anyone who's aware of these issues or cares about them really should have been smart enough to switch to Firefox a long time ago.

[–] RTRedreovic@feddit.ch 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A lot of people do use Adblockers. https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

You can try other sources as well. The statistics say significant numbers on multiple places.

[–] pokexpert30@lemmy.pussthecat.org 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

46% global and 27 USA? Damn the us people are even more tech illiterate than I would've guessed. I suppose the 85+% market share of the iPhone among teens has something to do with it.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you really surprised, considering how much our education system gets hijacked by right-wing legislation?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't personally call 42% that high and by definition not most.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

It's much better than what I observe with people around me, I would have guessed about 10%

[–] rbhfd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A big enough hit if 42% of Chrome users switch to a different browser.

However, I wouldn't be surprised to see that people with adblock are more likely to use something other than Chrome. And some people will stay with Chrome and deal with the lack of adblock.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Roughly 60% of people use chrome so I'm sure there is a big cross over.

But I feel if people really cared they wouldn't use chrome to begin with.

Time will tell.

[–] Vendul@feddit.de 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Must be enough to make big companies angry

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I think it's more that they know most people won't bother if they make it difficult.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use duck duck go. The browser on my phone even auto opts out of cookies

[–] rbhfd@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

You can also do that with Firefox on your computer.

It's not in settings, but you can easily google the instructions.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which makes this even more annoying. Like you have good chunk of the world using your browser with ads, but you still want even more and are still taking these types of scummy actions.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I think they're taking aim at people who use an adblocker because it's simple and won't bother if they make it harder than installing an extension.