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Ad blockers kill Zippyshare
« on: March 20, 2023, 03:33:33 PM »
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45m Visits Per Month Makes No Money * TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-file-hosting-veteran-calls-it-quits-2006-2023-230320/

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Re: Ad blockers kill Zippyshare
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2023, 05:11:20 PM »
>>45m Visits Per Month Makes No Money

They probably have an unusually high percentage of users running blockers.

Pierre Far used to run Blockmetry which tracked content blocking. Not surprisingly, they found that while JS blocking was around 0.2% in general, it was 10.5% for Tor users.
https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled