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57 points

Get out of the lemmy Foss bubble and ask again. I don’t know anybody that actually gives a fuck about manifest v3 tbh.

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55 points

They will care about their adblocker no longer working

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15 points

Do many real life users even know about ad blockers?

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16 points

The reason there’s such a pushback against them is because they’ve become popular. It used to be a secret amongst nerds; now it’s common even on the iPhone.

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27 points

YouTube seems to think so

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I once saw stats from a 2015 study that said 40% of people on the internet used ad blockers. Who knows how that’s changed since then, but as somebody else said, the majority of people who don’t probably don’t even know that you can block ads, otherwise they’d probably be using it.

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Given the amount of people all too happy to use Chrome on Android where you can’t block ads easily, I doubt it.

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1 point

I use ublock origin on firefox on android, wasnt that hard.

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13 points

That’s usually not because they don’t care but because they don’t know that ads can be blocked on the phone as well

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14 points

Because they haven’t been affected by Manifest v3 yet. As soon as they realise just what Manifest v3’s all about…They’ll give a fuck.

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1 point

Savvy people may bother. Everyone else, who are much more numerically significant, still won’t.

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0 points

Those two crowds intermingle, you realize that, right? They’re your family and friends, and they talk to each other.

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4 points

I’ve never even heard of it…

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The short of it is that Google wants to prevent ad blockers from working in Chromium based browsers.

I don’t remember if this is also planned for v3 or unrelated, but there was also talks of essentially DRM-ing the internet to block non-Chromium browsers.

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2 points

Yeah, it’ll be more common knowledge when it hits next summer and current era of adblocking seizes to exist on Chrome.

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3 points

People don’t care about anything until that thing hits them.

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