Study claims more than half of Americans use ad blockers
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  • я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    i always lol about people opposing ad blockers.

    oh no! my favorite unethical multinational conglomerate now has a few bucks less!

    how can anybody see this as a bad thing? ad blocking is cybersecurity.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    76 percent of cybersecurity experts use ad blockers.

    I’m a bit worried about that other 24%. How expert are they if they don’t recognize the risk?

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      maybe they don’t enable js at all /s

      jk, maybe they value fingerprinting over that? even tor browser doesn’t have one built in.

    • psivchaz@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

      There’s some inherent risk in the ad blocker as well, though. If it’s an extension, you’re trusting that this thing you installed, that can read and modify every website you visit, isn’t going to do anything sneaky. Yes, maybe it’s open source, but every once in a while something sneaks into open source projects, too. It will get caught, but it could be after the damage is done.

      I mean, I use an ad blocker. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to value security and not use one.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        But by that logic, absolutely everything other than standing still in a fethal position in a dark cave is a cyber security risk.

        Are you using an extremely solid version of Linux? Wellllll, sometimes bad actors can push bad code to open source projects! It’s a risk!

  • ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Once I had to use the internet without and ad blocker ( shiver ). It was horrible. I still have nightmares.

    Joking aside. I couldn’t believe how crammed full and chaotic sites were without an ad blocker. I have no evidence to support this other than my experience but I think , for me , ad blockers are good for my mental health. Being constantly exposed to all those messages trying to exploit insecurities can’t be good for people.

    Anyways ad blockers are the best.

  • sweetpotato@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Good, your attention is a commodity, don’t let advertisers steal it. We’ve been assaulted with enough ads in public spaces already.

  • Godort@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Good. Ad blocking is security and anyone that tells you different both doesn’t care about your computer security, and also wants to sell you something.

    That 2/3 to 3/4 of computer programmers, computer security experts and advertisers seems low. I feel like that should be closer to 90%

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The rest are designing/coding/testing the ads and work for ad companies.

  • Einar@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It’s almost as if companies have gone a bit overboard with advertising. Huh. Didn’t see that coming…