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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/majority-of-americans-now-use-ad-blockers/ar-BB1kEhis
That's why ads are now being tested on the OS level.
The Censuswide report indicates that 66 percent of experienced advertisers use ad blockers.
lol
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/privacy-report-advertisers-and-adblockers
Straight from the source.
And a funny quote I found from Cory Doctorow a year ago: "One in four web users has installed a blocker, making it (in the words of Doc Searls) the largest consumer boycott in history".
All sorts of people are fed up with this shit.
That, and the spam texts and calls. I hit the wall with this last night, and finally got a call/text screening app. fuck that noise.
I just don't even answer my phone anymore unless I recognize the number. It's exhausting.
I was spending way too much time blocking numbers. I legit got 3-4 calls a day and about the same for texts. It seems to go in spurts though
I've noticed that spurts thing too. I'm a sole proprietor so I also get endless business loan text spam. Those also seem to go in spurts for some reason. One week I'll get two a day and then nothing for the next couple weeks.
If you're on Android, checkout Yet Another Call Blocker. Works great, I've used it for 10 years now.
Time to learn how to Linux, I guess...
nowadays there's not even that much to learn, probably biggest difference is just the file system, and getting out of the horrid habit of downloading programs from the browser.
Where do you download programs from?
primarily like on mobile, you just download from the "app store".
This can either be done via terminal (something like "apt install blender") or via a graphical program like Discover for the KDE desktop, in which case it's literally just like a mobile app store where you search for the program, click "install" and that's it.
There are some alternate ways of installing programs, which can involve downloading from a website, but that's for getting the very freshest release of a program or for very niche projects that aren't included in the distro's software repository yet.
So if you're an android power user it's exactly like that, most apps come from the store, but some apps you have to download from the web.
The repository of the distro that you're running or flathub. Sometimes also an AppImage from a GitHub/GitLab releases page if it's an obscure program.
The other 33 are lying.