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		mtrn on March 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking They might not be perfect, but my uBlock says 611,492 or 8% blocked requests, which still helps.

majewsky on March 4, 2016 [–]

What uBlock displays is merely a lower bound. Many ad scripts, when loaded, will make further requests. But with uBlock, they're never loaded, so uBlock can't count the requests that were never tried.

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