• Quik@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    This is a rare example of a situation in which an ad blocker would maybe have saved a life…

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      1 year ago

      Depends if you believe in life by statistics…

      Just using the data from sponsor block, the community crowdsourced video embedded ad skipper…

      There are currently 13,033,165 users who have submitted 15,198,718 skip segments, which have saved a total of 2001 years and 38.56 days of people’s lives.

      2001 years / 75 years average per life equals 26 lives saved

      Sponsor block alone has saved 26 lives worth of time…