Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
I don't really use facebook anymore so couldn't care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
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Great for the internet! More people will install an adblocker (hopefully ublock origin).
why would this lead to more adblocker installs? it's a message about already having one
Like it backfired for YouTube, it will be the case for Facebook. People become aware of them through the news it generates.
How did it backfire for YouTube? According to this source, YouTube has over 2 billion monthly users. Let's assume that a significant portion of this user base is around 10%, as a substantial loss in ad revenues would be necessary for this situation to backfire. That would amount to 200,000,000 users.
Do we have data confirming that ad-blockers gained approximately 200,000,000 new installations over the past month, or is there any other evidence to support this claim?
The argument I heard is that all of the chatter about adblockers is causing normal people who don't realize that adblockers exist to realize that they exist and try them out. I don't know if there's any evidence that this is actually happening, and I don't know how much I can believe that argument at this stage
Except it doesn't work that way. People don't care. Cambridge Analytica didn't get people off FB, neither will this.
Look how many here claim they use Facebook because other people do, many people only pretend to care about their privacy. All it takes is somebody else to not care about theirs, and then neither do they.
While i like ublock and use it myself, i hope not everyone uses it! There need to be different adblockers. Same as just one browser, or one forum is vulnerable to different things, so would adblocks be.
I agree that it's better to have multiple options. The issue with adblockers I often see is that they are adware themselves when not malware. With ublock origin, you can block contents of various types and not just ads. I prefer people having ublock origin than any bad option out there.