Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

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Study claims more than half of Americans use ad blockers
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Yeah, can you take a "Veteran cybersecurity expert" who doesn't generally use an adblocker serious?

Security knowledge and ethical concerns are two separate things. Whether we like it or not, we pay online creators through private data we must give to entities who will use it against our best interests.

Fuck that. We don't have to give them anything. They need to show they actually have put in the effort to protect their viewers. Until then, I refuse to do anything less than use everything available to me to block their ads. The days of whitelisting websites is over.

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