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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by Dwedit on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:27PM (#36542568)
> Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames

There were programs way back then that acted as a proxy server that would remove image tags that matched the size used by banner ads. See WebWasher or Proxomitron.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by HWR_14 on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:45PM (#36542789)
> Proxomitron

I haven't heard that name in a long time. Is that how it worked, by image size? I thought it was URL pattern matching.

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