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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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I've been blocking ads since 1998, thanks to WebWasher. That acted as a local proxy that blocked all known ad urls. No heuristics, no algorithms, no nothing. Back in the good old days that was plenty.