Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

submitted 6 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub

www.spacebar.news/chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v…

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by Jeena
6 months ago

uBlock Origin for Chrome has over 34 million installations according to the Chrome Web Store

Oh wow, that is very surprising to me. I somehow expected a billion of installations. Especially when I saw the screenshots without it in the article, how can anyone browse the web without it?

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by corbin@infosec.pub [OP]
6 months ago

Adblock users are still a statistical minority of web users. Most people don’t care (as evidenced by Netflix’s ad tier gaining subscribers every quarter) or don’t know those extensions exist.

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by Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
6 months ago

There are other ad block options. And there is Firefox. I use Vivaldi browser, it has a built-in ad blocker, just like many other browsers. I just wish Vivaldi would be Firefox based.

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by Jeena
6 months ago

But Firefox has a installation base of 2.8% and Chrome 65%. The Firefox uBlock Origin installations are in my opinion statistically insignificant, so are Brave browser installations which are even lower.

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