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by Joeboy 3962 days ago
> Well no, because then the page would load way too slowly and users would click away and avoid the site in the future.

People (fairly) happily sit through 15 minutes of advertising an hour, if that's the only way to get the content they want.

Maybe adblocking software will keep up. It lags behind at the moment, so I'm a bit doubtful it will keep up in a future of increasingly sneaky ad delivery.