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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by douche on Friday September 30, 2016 @02:32PM (#12614308)
This[1] is from a year ago, before ad-blocking became widely available on mobile, and they're still looking at hundreds of millions of users using adblockers.

I don't know how reputable PageFair is, but they estimate more than 20% of smartphone users are adblocking now[2].

[1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/study-of-ad-blockin...

[2] https://pagefair.com/blog/2016/mobile-adblocking-report/

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Re:Microsoft forms new 5,000-person AI division by yathern on Friday September 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#12615399)
That sounds like a very high number. At least anecdotally, I'm not aware of anyone in my circle of influence who uses a mobile ad blocker. My suspicion would be that less people use mobile ad blockers than on a browser.
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