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by jowea 249 days ago
It's called banner blindness. The brain ends up trained to do the adblocking itself.
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No, the brain doesn’t Adblock, that’s the misconception. It gets used to ads to a point where it is not registered _consciously_ anymore. But the ad works subconsciously very well, armies of marketing people studied this.
Brainblock should be the name.
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