Posted by: Nameless Voice
« on: Today at 03:04:15 »I could almost be convinced that they added that slight colour gradient specifically to make us all think our hardware was failing.
This statistic can be explained completely by the number of mobile devices.
More people than ever before are using ad blockers on desktops/laptops, but the increase is absolutely dwarfed by the number of people getting 2,3,4 mobile devices, Smart TV's, and other locked-down proprietary garbage that doesn't allow ad blockers.
Honestly, Smartphones and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
And if you think 2024 is a concerted effort against ad blocking and privacy, my response is, where have you been the last decade? Every year is the worst year for privacy, and every year is the worst year for intrusive advertisements.
Despite an overall increase in the number of people with ad blockers, the proportion of internet users using ad block tools has dipped since 2021.
DataReportal found that approximately 1 in 3 (32.5%) internet users use ad blockers. That figure has fallen 4.5% from Q3 2021’s 37%, although a change in methodology may be a contributing factor.
Will MV2 extensions still work in Brave?
Yes, for now. We recognize the importance of supporting existing Manifest V2 extensions. We have force-enabled Manifest V2 support in the Brave browser, ensuring that you can continue to use your favorite extensions without interruption. In June 2025, Google plans to remove all remaining Manifest V2 items from the Chrome Web Store. While Brave has no extension store, we have a robust process for customizing (or “patching”) atop the open-source Chromium engine. This will allow us to offer limited MV2 support even after it’s fully removed from the upstream Chromium codebase.
(...)Day said that Prime Video had deliberately launched earlier this year with a “very light ad load” — for example, no ad breaks in the middle of a programme — which had been a “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like”.
She said that “churn” — when customers leave the Prime service — had also “been much, much less than we anticipated . . . we haven’t really seen a groundswell of people churning out or cancelling”.
According to various rumours, and one actual mention by a voice actor, Valve were working on a game earlier in the year, named 'Project White Sands", but (again, according to rumours) that game has now been subsumed into an ongoing project which is codenamed 'HLX', supposedly set after the events of Half-Life: Alyx (which logically would make it a prequel to Half-Life 2, and so not really elligible to be named 'Half-Life 3', surely?).
Right, because if there's one thing Valve is known for, it's doing things just for the money.