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> That said fb and google ads are pretty unobtrusive

That depends on how you count. "Unobtrusive", maybe, but those ads are intolerably intrusive, because of the tracking.

Between the two, I'd rather have those old "spank the monkey" banners any day of the week. But I also fondly remember a time before even those existed.

In many ways, advertising has really ruined vast swaths of the internet.



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