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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by webwanderings on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:15PM (#10275710)
Thanks for the data. As another uBlock user (who does not care about the split by the way) and as someone who is not a tech-bubble elite, I can tell you with much confidence, that there is no such thing as "ordinary users" when it comes to Adblocking.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by zingmars on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:05AM (#10276602)
I don't know man, plenty of people are fed up with ads (installing adblock isn't really technically challenging) and now there are plenty more non-tech people using adblock because of Apple.
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by zo1 on Friday September 25, 2015 @04:34AM (#10276951)
I install AdBlock plus on all my family member's machines. That, and I also install NoScript.

They're ordinary users, and they use adblocking without even knowing it.

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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by onli on Friday September 25, 2015 @04:55AM (#10276998)
Noscript? It is a bold move to break more than half of the internet for them. Did they learn to use the Noscript-menu when something does not work?
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Re:Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus ... by zo1 on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:32AM (#10277285)
Yes, I taught them what to do if the website doesn't work. They're surprisingly adept now at only accepting domains that look trustworthy, selectively. My parents being 60+ years old, I'm also amazed at it...
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