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byClueHammer ( 6261830 ) writes:
Ie nothing anyone actually wants to look at. The only way to make it interesting again is to ban all advertising!
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byStormwatch ( 703920 ) writes:
No sane person goes online without an ad blocker.
bysilentbozo ( 542534 ) writes:
By this definition at least half of America (if not the world) is insane.
https://old.reddit.com/r/marke... [reddit.com]
Also keep in mind that a lot of ads are now being served through sources other than web browsers, even if the backend is sending and receiving data over https. You'd have to implement DNS based filtering of ad traffic, if not outright MITM deep packet inspection to block traffic served via apps.
With that said, having recently fired up a browser that had not yet been configured with adblocking when prov
byAdeBaumann ( 126557 ) writes:
"By this definition at least half of America [...] is insane."
Well - look who they voted into the white house... not quite the counterargument you think it is.
bysabbede ( 2678435 ) writes:
"Now"? How may popups have you seen today demanding that you hit a monkey?
The internet became "all ads" the instant someone realized people would see those ads. If anything, I'd say it's gotten better. There used to be so many popup ads that it would crash computers. And then there were the actively malicious ads that would change your browser settings and desktop background. There aren't any fewer ads, but they aren't as horrible.
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