• Jeena
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    1714 days ago

    uBlock Origin for Chrome has over 34 million installations according to the Chrome Web Store

    Oh wow, that is very surprising to me. I somehow expected a billion of installations. Especially when I saw the screenshots without it in the article, how can anyone browse the web without it?

    • @corbin@infosec.pubOP
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      2314 days ago

      Adblock users are still a statistical minority of web users. Most people don’t care (as evidenced by Netflix’s ad tier gaining subscribers every quarter) or don’t know those extensions exist.

    • Lord Wiggle
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      1114 days ago

      There are other ad block options. And there is Firefox. I use Vivaldi browser, it has a built-in ad blocker, just like many other browsers. I just wish Vivaldi would be Firefox based.

      • Jeena
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        814 days ago

        But Firefox has a installation base of 2.8% and Chrome 65%. The Firefox uBlock Origin installations are in my opinion statistically insignificant, so are Brave browser installations which are even lower.