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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette (pressgazette.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.

Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Toggles like that are available in other adblockers too and they pose a problem. They ad a ransom to showing you ads. You don’t want the ads but if the advertisers pay the adblocker company they get whitelisted and you see the ads anyway.

Never use those toggles.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They ad a random to showing you ads

hhwat

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sorry, fixed.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Do you have some evidence of this?

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[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Okay, I'm assuming that you are asking for evidence of the paying of adblockers to allow some ads through, and not for evidence that he fixed the typo he thought you were actually posting about?

Do a quick search for why we all now use ublock origin rather than ublock plus, and then for why we were using ublock plus rather than ublock, and then for why we were using ublock instead of adblock. There might be some adblock plus in the middle of that somewhere as well.

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