• nicerdicer@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Compared to the estimated number of internet users wordwide (5.4 billion) the number of ad block users is estimated to be around 912 million (year 2023). That is roughly 17% of all internet users worldwide.

    That means that around 83% of all internet users worldwide do not use an ad blocker at all.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      We should be very worried if the finances are so bad they are now going after the 17% (the numbers are prob a bit more skewed as I assume a higher % of that 17 is a high volume user)

  • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.

    Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      I’ve seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it’s a lot

      not sure I’d say it’s unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      1 day ago

      Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        The majority of humanity doesn’t own a PC.

        The majority of people I know just use a smart TV and just take the ads up the ass.

        Some people even just ignore the entire idea of skipping them, or acknowledging them in the first place.

        I could, but… meh energy.

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          My first reaction was to think about how humanities main 3 qualities are intelligence, social groups, maths [on phone, imagine i linked to Dijkstras article on counting here], and the ability to chuck spears very well. But meh effort.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    Please don’t make posts to TechTakes that are just bare images without a description. The description can be simple, like “Screenshot from YouTube saying ‘Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service’”. Some of our participants rely upon screenreaders. Or are crotchety old people who remember an Internet that wasn’t all three websites sharing snapshots of the other two websites.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioOP
    14·
    2 days ago

    i use ublock origin

    reddit still good for something: Filter Lists–>uBlock filters–>uncheck the “ublock filters - quickfixes” box and then reload the page.

    this worked for me

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    No problem, set your useragent to openai, boom no more advertisements. Every other video is some weird video about how great google is however. Strange that. (Note: this is a joke, not something that I tested and actually works).