Pete Hahnloser to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 15 days agoYouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changeswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down10
arrow-up1186arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changeswww.youtube.comPete Hahnloser to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 15 days agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@filcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink12•13 days ago30% desktop, 15% mobile estimated in the US use ad blockers. That is not insignificant by any means, even if it’s overestimated.
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish5•13 days agoI imagine the amount of people using sponsorblock specifically are much smaller.
minus-square@filcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink5•13 days agohttps://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/ You’re right, but I think it’s fairly safe to assume that if one knows about sponsorblock, they’re using an ad blocker too.
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish5•13 days agoOf course, I was only saying few people used sponsor block compared to (any) general ad blocker.
minus-square@UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•12 days agoSo few… I’m going to just start offering to install ad blockers in everyone’s phone
30% desktop, 15% mobile estimated in the US use ad blockers.
That is not insignificant by any means, even if it’s overestimated.
I imagine the amount of people using sponsorblock specifically are much smaller.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/
You’re right, but I think it’s fairly safe to assume that if one knows about sponsorblock, they’re using an ad blocker too.
Of course, I was only saying few people used sponsor block compared to (any) general ad blocker.
So few… I’m going to just start offering to install ad blockers in everyone’s phone