* North and Central America includes the Caribbean. The source provides the following information about the methodology: "We compiled a comprehensive list of ad-blocking software using authoritative sources, including TomsGuide, Mozilla, and DigitalTrends. Then we used Ahrefs to find out which countries regularly search for them on Google the most. Then we took the number of internet users in each country from the Telecommunication Union, divided the number of monthly Google searches by the number of internet users, and multiplied by 100,000 in order to make the results more readable."
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Demand for ad blocking software worldwide 2021, by region
In January 2021, the demand for ad blocking software was highest in Europe. Europeans carried out thousand searches for ad blocking software per 100,000 internet users. Asia ranked second with **** thousand searches.
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