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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by shredprez on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:39PM (#22445139)
Yelp! Try clicking "read more" on any review in a mobile browser and see what happens.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by tcberry on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:28PM (#22445558)
You can get around that by selecting "View desktop site" on your mobile browser.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by forkandwait on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#22445217)
So don't use yelp
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by samatman on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:25PM (#22445542)
This would be a more attractive option if it didn't amount to 'cede yet another part of the Internet to Google'.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by mixmastamyk on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:37PM (#22445638)
Reminds me of when Microsoft took over. Many of their competitors destroyed themselves in the 80s and 90s.
Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by Mountain_Skies on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:34PM (#22446607)
In my final year of university during the late 90s, we'd have different companies come in to do presentations on what they do and why we should work for them. Microsoft did a two hour presentation on how great of a place Microsoft is to work at. About a month later Sun came in and did a two hour presentation on how much Microsoft sucks and how stupid you'd have to be to go work there. We learned almost nothing about Sun from their presentation. After that I really started noticing just how much Sun allowed their business decisions to be guided by antagonizing Microsoft rather than providing products and services to their customers. I wasn't surprised at all by their eventual failure.