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We definitely do not represent the vast majority of users.

Many have no idea these risks even exist, or mostly wrong notions about them.

Pretty sure my parents and grand parents don't even want to know their (probably randomly picked) ad blocker could pick up their credit card number every time they type it in their browser.

How could we hold it against them? Computers to them merely are (sometimes cumbersome and annoying) tools.



If your parents are consistently using ad-blockers they're doing better than most of my family. My mother wouldn't know what a browser extension was let alone how to begin installing one. The totally computer illiterate are at least protected in that sense.




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