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Internet Ads Are Now Hacking Your Computer...
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2026
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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.