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How “ad blocker” trended on Hacker News

“Ad blocker” was mentioned 21,107 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2015 with 519 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “ad blocker” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “ad blocker”

1. 1.Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets 873 points · 575 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
2. 2.“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” 810 points · 378 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers 799 points · 931 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust 669 points · 359 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers 661 points · 406 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes 571 points · 248 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The NSA and CIA use ad blockers 566 points · 329 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.“We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers” 521 points · 257 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race 477 points · 334 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow 448 points · 386 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works 423 points · 316 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers 422 points · 780 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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