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by 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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TIL I'm an extremist.
Welcome to the club.

Though those little rectangle GIFs were mint back in the day