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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.
Did as 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 heard someone say they are ok with accepting all cookies on sites because they actually prefer "targeted ads" because they are more interesting that 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.