Surprised Pikachu

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I doubt most people use an adblocker.
Anyone who's aware of these issues or cares about them really should have been smart enough to switch to Firefox a long time ago.
- A lot of people do use Adblockers. https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users
  You can try other sources as well. The statistics say significant numbers on multiple places.
  
  46% global and 27 USA? Damn the us people are even more tech illiterate than I would've guessed. I suppose the 85+% market share of the iPhone among teens has something to do with it.
  
  Are you really surprised, considering how much our education system gets hijacked by right-wing legislation?
  
  Fair.
  
  I wouldn't personally call 42% that high and by definition not most.
  
  It's much better than what I observe with people around me, I would have guessed about 10%
  
  A big enough hit if 42% of Chrome users switch to a different browser.
  However, I wouldn't be surprised to see that people with adblock are more likely to use something other than Chrome. And some people will stay with Chrome and deal with the lack of adblock.
  
  Roughly 60% of people use chrome so I'm sure there is a big cross over.
  But I feel if people really cared they wouldn't use chrome to begin with.
  Time will tell.
- Must be enough to make big companies angry
  
  I think it's more that they know most people won't bother if they make it difficult.
- I use duck duck go. The browser on my phone even auto opts out of cookies
  
  You can also do that with Firefox on your computer.
  It's not in settings, but you can easily google the instructions.
  
  Duck duck go also runs it's own vpn which is great if you can't root your phone.
  
  You can use system-wide VPNs on Android without root
  
  DuckDuckGo is also so much better for search results since Google made theirs shit.
  I can find websites pretty easy on DuckDuckGo which just don't exist on Google.
  
  damn google has really gotten shit then. I used to avoid duckduckgo because of how much better google was.
  
  Google used to be like "we have found 10 quadrillion websites with your term" and you could click page 173 and it would give you the list for as many times as you wanted to click
  Then they went to giving you several pages but if you clicked past page two they would be like hahaha psych there are actually only two pages of results for "starcraft two newbie tips"
  Now I'll search for specific phrases I know I read somewhere and I'll get like, three god damn results.
  Really? On the entire internet? Three results?
  It's just disrespectful and insulting
- Which makes this even more annoying. Like you have good chunk of the world using your browser with ads, but you still want even more and are still taking these types of scummy actions.
  
  I think they're taking aim at people who use an adblocker because it's simple and won't bother if they make it harder than installing an extension.

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