Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there were so many fucking ads online in the late 90s

  and you couldn’t block them because they were either served from the same domain or used the same plugin as the content and it was an all-or-nothing thing

  all those goddamn blinking gifs with “click here” and “you’re our millionth visitor”, and the pop-ups, and the flash bars with “shoot the ducks”…

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    a lot of those came up in the late 90s early 2000s though. the early 90s were mostly just text based pages.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah, but as soon as the web actually enough traffic to take off the ads were everywhere. before 1996 it was basically just a prototype.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that was 3.0

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      considering that “web 2.0” is widely accepted to be “the social web”, where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability… no.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        maybe i’m getting my html versions mixed up with my buzzwords

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There were ads! But these were simple banner graphics of 468x60 pixels. In the worst case it was an animated GIF. But hosted on the same server as the page and without any tracking shenanigans.

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  • Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.

    Every so often one gets through my blocker and they have only gotten more annoying.

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    • jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, people seem to have mostly forgotten about the forced audio playback that was really prevalent for a while. It was crazy effective because you would have to hint down the actual ad causing the issue on the page to stop it.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember the add that made me install my first add blocker. It stated playing the sound of knocking on glass and a voice going “Hey You!”. With a looped videoof some guy waving at me.

      I have a similar story. People were fine with ads until they got too obnoxious and intrusive, and now the people making the obnoxious intrusive ads are crying that people are blocking them.

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s before it got colonized by megacorporations.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • piefood@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LoL, that wasn't the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>

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