What Digiday staffers know about ad blockers

Those annoying ads and pesky pop-ups are the bane of our digital lives. But how many of us actually use ad blockers? Digiday regularly covers ad blocking and how the phenomenon has become a growing problem for publishers. So we thought we’d find out how much the staff here at Digiday really knows about ad blockers.

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