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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by baldfat on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:48AM (#12443306)
They have adds on Google Search? I swear my mind automatically just remove them subconsciously.

Also you could just use an add block

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by newscracker on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:25AM (#12443625)
> I swear my mind automatically just remove them subconsciously.

That's a (rather quickly) learned behavior called banner blindness. :) [1] People get used to the locations where ads are placed on web pages and also the kind of look that ads have (flashy, colorful, animation, tiny picture with some text, etc., as some examples) and don't even look at them (these have been confirmed by eye tracking studies a long time ago).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by witty_username on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:05PM (#12444502)
/s/add/ad
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