One in five smartphone users uses an ad-blocker on their phone, report says

JMH · Jun 2, 2016

More than one in five people routinely block adverts on their phones, new figures say.

At least 419 million people are stopping ads from appearing on their mobile devices, according to a report by PageFair on the use of mobile ad-blockers. That works out to 22 percent of the world's 1.9bn smartphone users, as of March 2016.

Of those adblocker users, the report says more than 400 million people use mobile browsers that block ads by default. A large number of those are in China, where there are 159 million users of mobile ad-zapping browsers, and India, where there are 122 million people using browsers that ban ads.

One in five smartphone users uses an ad-blocker on their phone, report says - CNET

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One in five smartphone users uses an ad-blocker on their phone, report says

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