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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @12:18AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @12:18AM (#960509)

    And, you have to be aware of what the extensions are doing! If AdBlock is collecting your information, then selling it on, then AdBlock isn't doing you any good at all, right? If the addon is accepting money from advertisers to allow their ads through, you've gained nothing with the addon.

    Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

    In your examples, then AdBlock will have my information for the highest bidder, but it means that all the B, C, D, E and more companies don't have it. I'd rather a couple have it than everybody.

    Likewise, if the addon is allowing some advertisers through but blocking others, it's still an improvement. If an antibiotic "only kills 99% of pathogenic bacteria," I'd still use it if I were sick with a bacteria infection, even if 1% still gets through.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @09:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @09:40AM (#960644)

    There's nothing to stop them from selling it to multiple places, nor those places reselling it, nor those places reselling it, etc. Plus you also have to figure out the coverage of what they block, as it doesn't matter if they block 99% of companies if the one or two it doesn't has 50%+ market share.