▲ 1162 ▼ Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette (pressgazette.co.uk) submitted 1 year ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 327 comments fedilink hide all child comments They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers. Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children) Name and shame. Who's the link aggregator? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JayGray91@piefed.social 17 points 1 year ago but it's icky to say its name 🥺🥺🥺 joking aside, I'd wager it's reddit permalink fedilink source parent [–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago It’s happened directly on Google before. Advertisers aren’t vetted except in specific industries. It could happen on any site, trusted or not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 17 points 1 year ago but it's icky to say its name 🥺🥺🥺 joking aside, I'd wager it's reddit permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago It’s happened directly on Google before. Advertisers aren’t vetted except in specific industries. It could happen on any site, trusted or not. permalink fedilink source parent