They were crude by today’s standards, often just blocking entire domains.
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 days agoWere the adblockers in the mid 90s blocking parts of pages like banner ads, or were they just the popup blockers? I think I may have used the latter.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
They didn’t block the entire element, but they blocked banners and in-page ads somehow. You’d just see a broken image icon where the ad would normally be and it wouldn’t be a clickable link.