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Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea
From a quick search it seems like it's under 30%. Crazy.
Crazy how many people are raw-dogging digital sewage.
More like getting raw-dogged by it...
It’s an ouroboros of shit-fuck, really. People just going down on themselves unto perpetuity.
My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”
“Ok give me one”
“You’d have to use firefox”
“Never mind then, I want chrome”
Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.
TBF Firefox on Android is not as good as it could be, it can be frustrating when it doesn't load tabs sometimes or slows down to a crawl for no reason.
I still use it, but I can see why people might have bad experiences with it.
I don't have an issue with it. I'm also using privacy badger and noscript
it only did that when on reddit, i think reddit does intentionally to force you to use the app.
Yeah... As a Firefox user on android, Firefox on android isnt very good :/
Firefox on Android kinda sucks. Hook him up with Cromite.
Does it? I haven't tried anything else in years.
Cromite is buggy af from my experience and it's pretty out of date. Brave is the only remaining chromium option other than like DuckDuckGo, but it has its own big problems.
The browser situation on Android is screwed
It's worse than average person. I don't even see tech-savy friends use adblockers nowadays. No idea why, I never asked.
And I feel like majority of people don't even know browser extensions exist, and those who do think it's all shady and malware, so they avoid those like plague.
I showed my wife the world of extensions like ad block and dark reader. Then she asked for some help one time and I saw she had some sort of tab grouping manager thing and had like a million tabs and was horrified of what I've done. I let her know there should be a setting that purges the browser when she closes it but she refused
Some people use tabs like bookmarks. I remember an ex telling me that Chrome takes 10+ seconds to launch on her phone. When I checked, she literally had 1000+ tabs opened. I kid you not, the tab count said
:Dlike it basically gave up. My flabbers were gasted.If you do that in incognito it shows a
;)instead.The
:Dmight be my favourite feature of Chrom-ium on Android. It's so whimsical!did you tell her that there bookmarks for a browser.
Chrome doesn't really have an ad blocker anymore. Firefox + unlock origin is a different level than chrome users can even access.
well ublock lite is surprisingly helpful
Yeah, I use uBlock lite on my work computer since i don't want to have to fight websites for hating FF. It works perfectly fine for your regular everday purposes.
It's literal madness.
No wonder nobody's fucking brains work anymore
There has been a few times when I showed people my ad-less internet. Their heads exploded! They went, "Oh dear internet fairy, show me your ways of serenity!" and I did. I installed adblockers on their devices. Each and every time they went "Thank the heavens, I've never known such comfort in my digital life before!"
AND THEN THEY JUST STOPPED USING THEM AFTER A WHILE????
Edit: Not my Mom though. My Mom looooves the adblocking.
My grandmother clicks on everything, constantly.. On her phone I tried setting her up with a DNS based ad blocker and it made it so her freemium games stopped working, the ones that give her 5+ minute ads every 15 minutes...
She refuses to use an adblocker because of it, but gets herself scammed out of money weekly due to these shitty malicious ads.
I recently had an opportunity where I could have put a 79 year old lady on the internet.
Then I remembered that she once told me how she was waiting for money from like publisher's clearing house or something.
Then I remembered that bulk of the internet, as a whole, is kinda shit..
very little have adblock on, plus alot of them likely uses apps on thier phones. and i think men use adblocks more than thier counterparts.
The average person uses whichever browser their OS came with. They won't go out of their way to get an adblocker, especially if they became desensitised to ads. They don't even know it could be better.