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As I began reading this, I thought "ugh, someone making hyperbole about how terrible they thought ads were on the web" (I seriously doubt anyone has been able t
by rubergly 15y ago
As I began reading this, I thought "ugh, someone making hyperbole about how terrible they thought ads were on the web" (I seriously doubt anyone has been able to do NO adblock-free browsing in 10 years, while using VMs, other computers, family computers, etc.). And then I read the part about clicking an ad, and... wow. I've never thought to click an ad before. Even an ad for a product I want to buy right then, I assumed would take me to some shady site or the main site only via some shady pop-up or something. I kind of really want to see what clicking ads does now.
- billpatrianakos 15y agoSame here. Most of the time the sites with the most annoying ads are ones you wouldn't want to frequent anyway so you rarely deal with it. To me ads are just there and I skip over them. Sometimes they catch my attention but they're really not all that annoying. It seems that adblocking is something that was more useful back in the 90's. These days ads are pretty unobtrusive for the most part. There's a bit of pop over here and there for some newsletter they want you to sign up for but it takes less than a second to click out of and they load fast and only display when fully loaded. I thought this was a lot of hyperbole too.