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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.

Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.

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[-] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks ago

Website: "You appear to be using an ad blocker." Me: "You appear to be correct."

[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

'disable ad block to contine'. no

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

There's almost always another website that has the same thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

yep, search subject of title. about as mush effort as fiddling with adblock settings.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Then I just sigh and go to archive.is and solve their captcha, so I can read the article.

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