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DRM is an umbrella term for technologies which allow media consumption for legitimate users and prevent access to everyone else. Examples are CD copy protection, serial numbers for software, as well as modern tools like encryption and remote access validation.
Most people don't use extensions thus no one will notice in general.
I still don't get how people use Internet without adblockers
People are technically illiterate. For most of human history, majority of population couldn't read. Right until basic education started to be enforced. And it wasn't something most approved back in the days.
Common misconception. Most people couldn't read and write in Latin, which was the only literacy statistic anyone cared about in the middle ages. People could usually write out something in their mother tongue in order to write a letter or leave a note. Keep in mind that spelling was not standardized in English until basic education (as you alluded to). That's when rules about grammar and spelling started to be standardized. Prior to that, people just wrote phonetically and there was no societal norms for that being wrong. As long as you could be understood, you were writing.
Majority of population was not speaking English at all.
That's why I said mother tongue.
At least in my experience, ads are rarely that obtrusive. They're usually either shunted off into a sidebar or, in the case of a video site, short and/or skippable. I have run across more intrusive ads in the past, but they were few and far between. I have an adblocker now, but I have more than a few sites whitelisted.
Eh, ...
src. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior
edit: Anyone please feel free to pitch in with data from other browsers. Thanks.
50% of 3%, that's a whopping 1.5%! 😅
But jokes aside, the average Firefox user is probably a lot more likely to have extensions than the average Chrome user.
About 10% of those have an adblocker if I read correctly? I find that hard to believe. Maybe people who leave telemetry enabled are just different.
Not a good example as firefox users probably tend more to have add ons.
Your graph is only for Firefox users. And even among Firefox users extension use is less than 50%. I understand that English language can be hard for many, but when a group of people represented more than 50% of all people in the statistic, then such group is called a "majority" or "most people".
Your post was needlessly condescending and you need to do better.
Thank you!
I hope we leave that tone to reddit.
You need to grow up.
Irony? Self-awarewolves? Both?