Study claims more than half of Americans use ad blockers
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  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    69·
    8 months ago

    76 percent of cybersecurity experts use ad blockers.

    I’m a bit worried about that other 24%. How expert are they if they don’t recognize the risk?

    • psivchaz@reddthat.com
      262·
      8 months ago

      There’s some inherent risk in the ad blocker as well, though. If it’s an extension, you’re trusting that this thing you installed, that can read and modify every website you visit, isn’t going to do anything sneaky. Yes, maybe it’s open source, but every once in a while something sneaks into open source projects, too. It will get caught, but it could be after the damage is done.

      I mean, I use an ad blocker. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to value security and not use one.

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
        171·
        8 months ago

        Open source adblockers reduce that risk significantly. Don’t trust closed source blockers.

            • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
              4·
              8 months ago

              The benefits massively outweigh the risks when it comes to open source ad blockers (lets be honest, we’re all talking about uBO), but limiting your attack surface is a very widely practiced concept in cubersecurity, and there’s no situation where it is totally without merit.

                • psivchaz@reddthat.com
                  3·
                  8 months ago

                  To be fair, I bet some percentage of those that don’t use an ad blocker ARE using something like no script and just don’t need one as a result.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      5·
      8 months ago

      maybe they don’t enable js at all /s

      jk, maybe they value fingerprinting over that? even tor browser doesn’t have one built in.