The caveat is that this comes from a post about Linux, which gained traction on r/linux and HackerNews so it's clearly not representative of the majority of the population. I'm always amazed at how few people use ad blockers and how crappy the web experience is without one.
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Here's a link to a collection of privacy/security focused search engines & extensions: https://raindrop.io/nathronman/privacy-resources-8719965
But how do they block google analytics?
You can give https://pi-hole.net/ a try. If you are able to set up a raspberry Pi and follow instruction of the documentation 🙂
It's incredibly easy to set up. I will set up one when I have the money
Advanced tracking protection in FF blocks it.
Similarly uBlock and many other privacy extensions block it on all browsers. I'm not sure but I guess Brave blocks it also by default.
Good question but the article doesn't really answer that other than tech-heavy audiences use adblockers and privacy-friendly browsers.
block it in your hosts file
I self-host open source Matomo instead and it provides all the basic stats I need locally for my sites.