Evaluation of Adblock Software Usage
Abstract
The article shows the main factors of adblocking software usage. The study was based on data obtained by a web questionnaire. The research was focused on evaluation of adblocking software usage factors in five categories: (1) gender, age, and education; (2) use of advertising and sources of knowledge about advertising; (3) technical and social reasons for blocking online advertisements; (4) usage of an adblock-wall; and (5) type of online advertisement. An evaluation of adblock usage factors revealed four main technical reasons for adblock usage connected with website technology and web development problems – interruption, amount of ads, speed, and security; and one social reason for adblock usage, namely, the problem of privacy.
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Adblock Software; Web Advertisement; Website; Security; Privacy
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DOI: 10.7250/csimq.2019-21.04
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Janusz Wielki
Sustainability vol: 12 issue: 17 first page: 7138 year: 2020
doi: 10.3390/su12177138
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