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by blubber 183 days ago
"When I use a text-only browser then no "adblock" is necessary"

So you browser as if it were 1999? Yup, no ads back then.

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The first ad blocker was released in 1996 [1] and in 1999 we had a lot of shiny, blinking and very colorful ads already [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking#History

[2] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/web-banners-in-t...

Yes, but there is no song with the line: party like it's 1996. Simply doesn't work.
1996 is a surprise, I thought WebWasher (http local proxy ad remover) was first.