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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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Surprised the rates of adblocking is so high! I thought it was a little more niche.
Also surprised that the article didn't mention manifest v3 rolling out later this year to Chrimium-based browsers - which will effectively end adblocking in all browsers except Firefox.
Google isn't stupid, they know that ad blocking undermines their business. And Google controls Chromium: the backbone of almost all browsers. So of course they're going to engineer it to prevent ad blocking. It was only a matter of time.
I'm doubtful of this article claims. Majority of them use adblocker? I'm sure its inaccurate. Most of the people I have seen don't even know about adblocker. So google doesn't have to worry for a long time. This article seems like bootlicking Google.