Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by bborud on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:39AM (#44548619)

I remember back in the day, one of the big selling points for Google’s search engine used to be that the advertising didn’t get in the way. Imagine that.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by le-mark on Sunday July 13, 2025 @07:56AM (#44549681)

I stopped saying this because no one remembers. Or the people I was talking to were to young. It’s way worse now than askjeeves ever was!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by RevEng on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:05PM (#44564643)

The big reason for me was that it "just worked". Altavista was the biggest player at the time but you had to learn a while query language to get good results. Google's search engine took plain English keywords and have relevant results.

[ Parent | on HN ]