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Installing an adblocker is trivially easy. I just checked, and it took me 5 clicks total, and typing in "Ad blocker" in the addons search.


Tell that to my mom.


Be a good kid and install it for her.


Yes, especially if you ignore all the risks - does that solution you googled in 5 seconds steal your data after 5 clicks - it is easy


The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store?

What's Google got to do with that?


I assume parent is linking at googling being absolutely ass nowadays with sponsored links leading to malware. Then again that's not an adblock issue but an ad issue.


I wasn't talking about your personal case where a tiny browser is relevant, but a huge search engine isn't (this is the same mistake that led you to believe it's trivially easy), but about the "non-elitist" general public


It's just as easy in Chrome.

And over 30% of the population use an ad blocker. So clearly not as hard as all that.

https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users




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