What were the ad blocking methods available? I didn’t really use the Internet until early 2000s and I can’t remember when I started using ad blocking extensions.
In the 90s? There weren’t any. You just had to put up with it.
Wikipedia says the first Adblocker was released in 1996, but I never heard of it, nor did I know of anyone who was blocking ads back then. I didn’t hear people discussing Adblockers until the mid-to-late 2000s, when AdBlock Plus first became popular.
I used ABP for many years until I learned that they sold out to the ad companies, and thus switched to Ublock Origin sometime in the 2010s. Not to mention that I got tired of having to manually update my ad filters. UBO made adblocking simple with its auto updater.
Yeah I meant the 90s
Thanks, your timeline makes sense to me. I wonder if that ad blocker from 96 even did anything. I know they sold software that “doubled your ram” and other impossible things.
What were the ad blocking methods available? I didn’t really use the Internet until early 2000s and I can’t remember when I started using ad blocking extensions.
In the 90s? There weren’t any. You just had to put up with it.
Wikipedia says the first Adblocker was released in 1996, but I never heard of it, nor did I know of anyone who was blocking ads back then. I didn’t hear people discussing Adblockers until the mid-to-late 2000s, when AdBlock Plus first became popular.
I used ABP for many years until I learned that they sold out to the ad companies, and thus switched to Ublock Origin sometime in the 2010s. Not to mention that I got tired of having to manually update my ad filters. UBO made adblocking simple with its auto updater.
Yeah I meant the 90s Thanks, your timeline makes sense to me. I wonder if that ad blocker from 96 even did anything. I know they sold software that “doubled your ram” and other impossible things.