Always have been. Online ads were obnoxious since the existence of them. And in the before times, there were no ad blockers, and there were popups, then pop-und

Always have been. Online ads were obnoxious since the existence of them. And in the before times, there were no ad blockers, and there were popups, then pop-unders, I had no idea WTF was going on. And the first ad blockers made browsing noticeably slower too.