• nicerdicer@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    Compared to the estimated number of internet users wordwide (5.4 billion) the number of ad block users is estimated to be around 912 million (year 2023). That is roughly 17% of all internet users worldwide.

    That means that around 83% of all internet users worldwide do not use an ad blocker at all.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      We should be very worried if the finances are so bad they are now going after the 17% (the numbers are prob a bit more skewed as I assume a higher % of that 17 is a high volume user)

      • nicerdicer@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        I too believe that the percentage of high volume users is higher. The graph shows the ammount of users that access the internet regardless of the device. I assume that about 2/3 of those users access the internet with a smartphone exclusively, implying that these users don’t use an ad blocker at all, since the word hasn’t spread to an extend that everyone uses one.

        The remaining third of all users access the internet with a browser on a desktop computer. It is very hard to estimate who uses ad blockers, as I can’t find any reliable resources. It depends on the peer group one is a part of. When I look into my social group, only three out of ten users do have an adblocker installed (me included) - and for two of those I had them introduced to ad blockers and set it up for them.

        On the other hand: I assume that the combination of Firefox and UBlock Origin would apply to 90% of Fediverse / Lemmy users.

  • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.

    Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours.

      To me the most baffling part is the devs. Like, someone has to be working on this? An honest-to-god software engineer is spending their life fighting windmills to harras more people with ads. This cannot be fulfilling work in any way, can it? Great, I’m putting a lot of work into circumventing uBlock and

      1. if I win then people will be forced to watch ads, which quite directly makes our society worse to exist in,
      2. I most likely won’t win, and the month of work I put into this will be thwarted by some guy in a cellar pushing a small uBlock change 4h after my code goes live.

      To be fine with that you have to be either a sociopath, or somehow completely compertmantilise the task and actively not think about the externalities… or be held at gunpoint. I mean, you’re a fucking software developer, there are other jobs than Google! You could be doing literally anything else right now, up to and including herding goats, why the fuck would you willingly fight on the front of the Ad War on the side of the ads.

      If I was working on YouTube and my boss told me that I had to figure out a way to thwart uBlock I’d just tell him no. If the choice was between doing that and quitting, I’d quit the same fucking day and get a job doing something real. I quite literally cannot imagine why you wouldn’t do that, you got a job at GOOGLE, if you succeeded in their stupid recruitment process then you can find a job LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE the same fucking week you quit.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      I’ve seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it’s a lot

      not sure I’d say it’s unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
      312·
      6 days ago

      Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        5 days ago

        The majority of humanity doesn’t own a PC.

        The majority of people I know just use a smart TV and just take the ads up the ass.

        Some people even just ignore the entire idea of skipping them, or acknowledging them in the first place.

        I could, but… meh energy.

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          My first reaction was to think about how humanities main 3 qualities are intelligence, social groups, maths [on phone, imagine i linked to Dijkstras article on counting here], and the ability to chuck spears very well. But meh effort.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    38·
    7 days ago

    Please don’t make posts to TechTakes that are just bare images without a description. The description can be simple, like “Screenshot from YouTube saying ‘Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service’”. Some of our participants rely upon screenreaders. Or are crotchety old people who remember an Internet that wasn’t all three websites sharing snapshots of the other two websites.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioOP
    17·
    7 days ago

    i use ublock origin

    reddit still good for something: Filter Lists–>uBlock filters–>uncheck the “ublock filters - quickfixes” box and then reload the page.

    this worked for me

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    No problem, set your useragent to openai, boom no more advertisements. Every other video is some weird video about how great google is however. Strange that. (Note: this is a joke, not something that I tested and actually works).

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I need to finally figure out which client’s most stable for Kodi, cause even though I’m freeloading on a friend’s YouTube platinum account, the official TV app’s still an incredibly unpleasant experience even without ads

      • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        SmartTV is still a missing link for me too. A Kodi RaspberryPi hooked up via HDMI seems viable.

        I wish I could just flash the firmware with a Linux and reinstall the Apps I need, but the whole ecosystem seems way too intransparent, and I’m not a passionate hardware hacker.