It's shockingly high. Most western countries see an average of 26% - 40% ad block rates (by pageview) across the web. Some sites skewing to an older, less tech savvy audience, see between 8% and 15%, while tech heavy sites can go as high as 92% of pageviews being ad blocked. It's actually crazy that adblock rates in developing countries like India and Indonesia can actually be much higher on average because of UC Browser adoption and high mobile web consumption. They don't care about ads and privacy though -- just saving money on their data plans from not downloading ads.

Source: I was briefly a product lead for a large tech company's anti-adblocking efforts and worked with publishers and others globally to measure these rates.

I'd love to hear more about your experiences in this field... we don't hear much fron the inside (as it were!)

Officially: https://www.blog.google/topics/ads/helping-publishers-recove...

Beyond that, even though I've been out of the game for a few years, I have to be careful what I say. But I've been planning on writing something soon.

What are you doing these days

We are starting to put tools like Pi Hole in our homes.

Someday soon we will put AdGuard in as the DNS provider for our parents and other relatives.

The same way Firefox and Google Chrome got adopted.

Advertising has gone from an annoyance to a potential serious threat to our well being from an increasingly surveillance oriented ecosystem.

Pi Hole blocks anywhere from 35 - 50% of all requests in my home. That's an astounding number of requests for an apartment with two residents.