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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by Turing_Machine on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:42AM (#37725393)
The typical browser user doesn't even know what plugins/extensions are, much less use any.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by mrkramer on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:45AM (#37725899)
Not quite true, around 800 million people use adblockers[0].

[0] https://www.statista.com/topics/3201/ad-blocking/

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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by pseudalopex on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:58PM (#37731827)
That is a minority of browser users.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by mrkramer on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:43AM (#37736460)
30% of adblock user penetration in the US is not that neglectable.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by pseudalopex on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:54PM (#37744977)
That is a different claim. And many of them used DNS ad blocks probably. Or were happy with Safari extensions.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by scriptingforfun on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:15AM (#37733925)
And growing. People are waking up. I've been a Pi-hole user for 7 years now. I will never not use something like it. Works on phones, laptops, TVs, everything. Since Pi-hole won't block ads on YouTube, I use uBlock Origin for this on my laptop, PopTube on phone, and for my TV, disabled the NIC, put my Firestick in developer mode, downloaded SmartTubeNext and have not seen an ad on any platform I control in years. I cannot fathom how people deal with ads. SmartTubeNext also blocks sponsors, which are just as bad. The second some YTer starts to shill, that's the second I bail from their channel. Finding indy channels that just provide info is increasingly difficult.
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