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.
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.
Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.
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.
I mean, yeah, the people on Lemmy aren’t atypical of the populous though.
If the Youtube player is giving you trouble, check out this Android App (alternative FDroid Repo) or the tool it’s based on (GitHub).
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.
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).
