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Granted, advertising in the early 2000s was vastly different though. It was served organically, with none of the tracking or embedded-scripting nonsense that's
by 0815test 8y ago
Granted, advertising in the early 2000s was vastly different though. It was served organically, with none of the tracking or embedded-scripting nonsense that's ubiquitous today (whether from Google or other actors). The very notion of "ad-blocking" or "tracker-blocking" would have made no sense back then.
- zu03776 8y agoWhile tracker-blocking in today's sense would have made no sense, there certainly was ad-blocking and cookie-blocking before the 2000s. AdSubtract advertised it's ability to block doubleclick.com cookies in March of 2000: https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/91102/adsubtract_blocks_ads_cookies/ https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/91102/adsubtract_bl... The article also mentions Siemens' WebWasher product which blocked cookies. Other cookie-blocking products were released in the same time period.
- Sylamore 8y agoI remember using Privoxy back in the early 2000s because even then certain ad networks were regularly serving up malicious content and pop-ups. at that time Google was the good guy serving up only text ads.
- stephenr 8y agoI was referring more to their motivation for doing things, not specific shitbag things they do now.