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by Dwedit 1088 days ago
> Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames

There were programs way back then that acted as a proxy server that would remove image tags that matched the size used by banner ads. See WebWasher or Proxomitron.

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> Proxomitron

I haven't heard that name in a long time. Is that how it worked, by image size? I thought it was URL pattern matching.