I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

  • Vardøgor
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    62 years ago

    why would this lead to more adblocker installs? it’s a message about already having one

    • moitoi
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      92 years ago

      Like it backfired for YouTube, it will be the case for Facebook. People become aware of them through the news it generates.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        How did it backfire for YouTube? According to this source, YouTube has over 2 billion monthly users. Let’s assume that a significant portion of this user base is around 10%, as a substantial loss in ad revenues would be necessary for this situation to backfire. That would amount to 200,000,000 users.

        Do we have data confirming that ad-blockers gained approximately 200,000,000 new installations over the past month, or is there any other evidence to support this claim?

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          The argument I heard is that all of the chatter about adblockers is causing normal people who don’t realize that adblockers exist to realize that they exist and try them out. I don’t know if there’s any evidence that this is actually happening, and I don’t know how much I can believe that argument at this stage

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Except it doesn’t work that way. People don’t care. Cambridge Analytica didn’t get people off FB, neither will this.

        Look how many here claim they use Facebook because other people do, many people only pretend to care about their privacy. All it takes is somebody else to not care about theirs, and then neither do they.