i always lol about people opposing ad blockers.
oh no! my favorite unethical multinational conglomerate now has a few bucks less!
how can anybody see this as a bad thing? ad blocking is cybersecurity.
What I wonder is... how?! A quick search shows that half of people in the USA use Chrome, another 30% Safari, 8% use Edge, and only 5% Firefox. This study was done by Ghostery so perhaps they chose a biased subset of the population? It just seems weird to me to think that more than half of average users use ad-blocking, these days.
My mom knows nothing about adblock, and is still blocking ads. You better believe all of the kids having to fix their relative's computers will set up some free antivirus and ad blocking right away.
Can't comment on the sample size though, Ghostery might indeed be somehow biased and measure devices where their software is installed vs. total number of internet users or something? But users of ghostery are more likely to be tech savvy, so there's a higher chance of them having more devices that are equally sanitized.
I'd have to dig through the study and see if the sampling mechanism is made public.
will set up some free antivirus and ad blocking right away.
Those mfs have got a way to go if they're setting up free antiviruses. Free anti-virsus will hurt your system probably more on average than actual viruses
Just use Windows defender already. It's been good enough for ages. All the others downplay this to justify their existence.
Some years ago, the Windows Defender certainly was a joke, but currently is very capable with an detection quote of 100%. A cause that Windows, as the most used OS was always also the most atacked by malware, but the devs of MS at least had made a good job. Windows is certainly an privacy nightmare, at least if used in default settings, but in question of security is currently maybe the best protected with safe boot, a good sandbox system and Defender, and, well, the Firewall is good, but sometimes overreacting with the need to whitelist some downloads and apps. But at all, there isn't anymor need for 3rd party AVs.
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I have an inherent distrust to all things Microsoft. And their firewall is so terrible that I don't want to find out they were as negligent when it came to developing their antivirus.
Yes it is available. It in turn points to another site Censuswide, but does say:
The figures are representative of all US adults aged 16+
According to statistics on my server, it's 57% Chrome, 14% Safari and 12% Firefox. Also 10% use Linux. I'm not hosting anything tech related though.
Anyways, adblocking is kind of essential. Even the boomers ask what's wrong when ads start showing. The only people I've seen browsing without adblock are Apple users.
Good, your attention is a commodity, don't let advertisers steal it. We've been assaulted with enough ads in public spaces already.
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.
Once I had to use the internet without and ad blocker ( shiver ). It was horrible. I still have nightmares.
Joking aside. I couldn’t believe how crammed full and chaotic sites were without an ad blocker. I have no evidence to support this other than my experience but I think , for me , ad blockers are good for my mental health. Being constantly exposed to all those messages trying to exploit insecurities can’t be good for people.
Anyways ad blockers are the best.
