Yes. Remember when everyone would leave reddit because of the API tax? 😂 reddit, front page of hypocrisy.
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Users complain but 99% of the 0,01% that actually use adblockers will just continue, just like how internet “boycotts” always end, by going back to the dystopian status quo
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’re here, aren’t we?
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I left after over a decade. Haven’t been back and won’t.
otherKarl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I did fucking leave.
Crazypartypony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Plenty of people actually did leave reddit, myself included. It wasn’t the API tax though, that was just the beginning…
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
www.statista.com/statistics/…/adblocking-usage/
similar stats to elsewhere.
you should probably not pull numbers out of your arse
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
not only is this a seemingly random site that needs you to use an account to access part of the information, all you need to do is not look at a random site that pulls stats out of their arse like you say, they dont explain where the data comes from, they dont explain anything.
I dont need to pull random ass data from that sketch site, this small amount of legwork is far more than necessary nor what you deserve for being a dick about it: (lets not forget you just say “elsewhere” without showing us, well, anything)
firefox addon site users:
ublock origin: 6.713.504 adblocker ultimate: 2.286.976 adguard adblocker: 991.481 block site: 518.605 adblock plus: 4.236.338 ghostery: 1.104.375 adblock for firefox: 1.166.799
everything else is too small and inconsequential to mention, same with github, thats a total of 17.018.078, firefox usercount FROM firefox, about 188 million
data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
since webstore doesnt use proper numbers we can only assume but:
adblock best adblocker: 10million+ adblock plus: 10million+ adaway: 2million+ ublock origin: 10million+
thats again, only super roughly but 32 million users compared to chromes rough 3.3 BILLION users
both of these may nto be exactly 0.01 % sure, but we are all inconsequential and mean nothing compared to the total count of uers, who barely know what a browser is, let alone what an adblocker is.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Google is not going to all this effort for a rounding error
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or maybe this is a proof of concept for completely blocking adblock across the web. YouTube is just a demo.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
YouTube itself has 2.7 billion monthly active users. Even if everyone rolling an adblocker is using YouTube, that’s still less than 2% of users. Of course, people who use YT more often are also probably more likely to be blocking ads, so going by the 122 million daily active users, 49 million could potentially be a hefty chunk of users. The real percentage of views getting adblocked is going to be somewhere in-between. It’s also worth noting that the numbers you pulled are likely inflated due to extensions being installed on multiple devices.
If I had to pull a number out of my ass, I’d guess it’s around 15%. Not a lot, not negligible.
sleepy555@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I read something like that, I don’t think “hey those are actual stats, wow!”. I actually think “hey those are actual stats, whoa!”. Kidding.
You’re being pedantic for no reason
It’s a generalization and their point was not the numbers. It was that in the past people complain about this kind of atuff, Google ignores it and people move on. Google probably even still continues to grow.
However, I think things have been shifting and that may not even end up being the case. Look at Unity.