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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by feedmeseymour on Sunday April 08, 2018 @01:30PM (#16787160)
Every person I know that uses an ad blocker (5, including myself) does it to prevent tracking.

In fact, I want to white list certain websites (a dozen or so) to continue seeing ads, but I don’t want to because I know that they are likely using Google for their ads and I don’t want Google’s little grabbling hands tracking me.

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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by gambiting on Sunday April 08, 2018 @06:38PM (#16788887)
I work in IT and I don't know anyone(myself included) who uses ad blockers to block tracking. It's just about the annoying ads for me.
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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by freehunter on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:27PM (#16787479)
So 5 people out of how many million? Just Adblock Plus on Chrome has over 10,000,000 installs, and "most" of 10,000,000 is a big number. Even bigger when you say "not using it for ad blocking"
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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by verylittlemeat on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:50AM (#16790706)
The #1 reason I use adblock is to block youtube ads.
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