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by Steltek 1800 days ago
People were blocking ads long before those were reasons.
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TheSmiddy 1799 days ago
The first ad blockers existed for popups and because ad networks were being used as a malware injection point.

Only extremists had an issue with the standard JPG banner ad at the top of every page.

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jldl805 1799 days ago
TIL I'm an extremist.
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SLWW 1799 days ago
Welcome to the club.

Though those little rectangle GIFs were mint back in the day

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