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Personally, I do not block first-party ads (i.e. ad images served from the same domain as the original content). For me, the point of using an adblocker is to reduce attack surface and tracking opportunities.

I see, of course, that I'm likely not representing the majority of adblock users.




I have ublock myself for privacy concerns, but I install ad blockers on all my relatives computers just because they are trustful and dumb enough to click any shiny green button that says "Download". Otherwise, I have to pull my hair when I look at their computers full of crap, which they can't explain how it got there. If the internet with ads wasn't such a dangerous place, I wouldn't do it in the first place.




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