That's because ads fucking suck
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.
I'm still surprised so many people don't use them.