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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 126 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Good. Ad blocking is security and anyone that tells you different both doesn't care about your computer security, and also wants to sell you something.

That 2/3 to 3/4 of computer programmers, computer security experts and advertisers seems low. I feel like that should be closer to 90%

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The rest are designing/coding/testing the ads and work for ad companies.

[–] PhatInferno@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

Or bots

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

You underestimate laziness