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> Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames There were programs way back then that
by Dwedit 3y ago
> Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames
There were programs way back then that acted as a proxy server that would remove image tags that matched the size used by banner ads. See WebWasher or Proxomitron.
- HWR_14 3y ago> Proxomitron I haven't heard that name in a long time. Is that how it worked, by image size? I thought it was URL pattern matching.