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I've been blocking ads since the 90s. I honestly do not understand how people use the Internet without ad blocking. It's completely unusable to me without.
Though I also turn off my radio volume when ads come on, so maybe I'm just really opposed to ads in general.
I heard someone say they are ok with accepting all cookies on sites because they actually prefer "targeted ads" because they are more interesting than generic ones for casinoes and medical scams.
I had no words.
no more fight left on those kinds
Fuck me people are stupid as shit.
I really dislike the general population, they seem to just zombie walk themselves through life paying no attention to anything at all.
You ๐ know ๐ what ๐ I ๐ mean?!
People do not pay attention, ๐ at ๐ all.
Did ad blocking work much differently from today, back in the 90s? Or was it the same kind of just "block requests from this domain", kind of deal?
A lot of it was blocking IP's and Domains in your hosts file since a lot of those connections were dial up, not high speed.
Once networking expanded a bit, it was blocking the same in your router. There were maintained lists around like there are today as well.
Neat, thanks for sharing.
I'm afraid to post links because people will complain about ads or that they can't see it. Pipepipe, RSS feeds, ad blockers on dns and for fun a detention in the web browser and I don't see anything. I expected most people on here to have a similar set up.
I have to go out of my way to even see things, I have Sam sedar, fox news, CNN, etc all subscribed on my RSS feed just so I can see the world outside of what I'm subscribed to. Just so I can see some headlines that give me an idea of what's going on, and then I can decide if I need to look into it more.