• polar@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nobody was complaining about small banner ads.

    Everybody hated banner ads. The first adblockers were targeting banner ads, and they were the beginning of the arms race. Advertising? On the Internet? Not a chance!

    How little we knew back then…

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      1 year ago

      Maybe my memory doesn’t go quite as far. But still, I believe adblockers didn’t take off in such a huge ways until we’ve seen all those popups, malware and other shit on a massive scale.