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Re:GIMP: Targeted Attack via a Google Ad by hawski on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:23PM (#33385486)
Always was. Does anyone remember the defacto original ad-blockers that blocking popups were? Firefox was marketed with this feature.

It is basically a condom for the Internet. It makes maintenance for family computers much easier.

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Re:GIMP: Targeted Attack via a Google Ad by geoduck14 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:54PM (#33385806)
But if you block pop-ups, that web page with Rick Astley's cool video popping up won't play.

/s

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Re:GIMP: Targeted Attack via a Google Ad by axiolite on Saturday October 29, 2022 @01:40PM (#33386257)
> Does anyone remember the defacto original ad-blockers that blocking popups were?

I was using the Internet Junkbuster (and later: Privoxy) in the mid-90s, many years before that. https://web.archive.org/web/19961222061917/http://www.junkbu...

Of course, back then you could just disable javascript in your web browser to protect yourself from malicious sites and annyances, and practically all sites would work perfectly fine.

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