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Poll: Do you use an ad/tracker blocker?

3 points by luke2m ↗ HN
Curious to see how HN readers compare to the 27% of all users.

EDIT: Thanks for the responses; please upvote to keep this alive

3 comments

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matheusmoreira
Absolutely. I don't feel any guilt either. The web is straight up unusable without these extensions.
simonblack
If ads were sent to you at NO COST TO YOU, most of us probably wouldn't gaf at all.

But when every ad you receive has a cost in terms of your data allowance and a cost in time, it's just not acceptable.

I have had, at various times, a very restrictive monthly downloads quota. At one time, for nearly a year, my average maximum daily allowance was a mere 60 megabytes.

It takes no time at all for advertisement images at around 1-2 megabytes each to slurp up all of your daily allowance.

helph67
Use and recommend both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.