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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder
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this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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I've been wondering if ads never got more intrusive than the simple banners on the side or top of sites if there would've been a huge push to block them. I think most people would figure that, especially on small sites run by people instead of huge corporations, that web hosting isn't free so a banner on a page was a fair tradeoff.
But of course that couldn't be enough for the ad folk who started ramping things up with their flashing ads and pop-ups, eventually culminating in the autoplay video malware hellscape the net has turned into today.
I can only speak for myself, but when I first looked into ad blocking I was only looking into it because of animated ads/ads with audio. Static ads were easy enough to ignore 95% of the time, which of course is why they escalated them to be more obnoxious. So now they're all blocked of course, they overreached and it cost them any ad views from me. I imagine I'm probably not alone in that.