The other day, I saw an ad. And it was on the Internet!
I kid not: a big old animated banner ad, trying to sell me stuff, large as life, cluttering up my monitor. I almost fell off my chair. Turns out someone else had been using my machine, and had left Internet Explorer up on the screen. I didn’t notice it wasn’t my usual browser — Firefox – until I clicked into a site and there it was, The Banner. And it was then that it struck me that it’s been months since I’d seen one — the combination of the Firefox plugins AdBlock and FilterSet.G Updater are really that good at blocking the little buggers out.
You can fill in your own moral ending to this tale — be it that I’m one of the scum free-riding on sites that only exist because of ad revenue (whatever — kill them all and let God sort it out), or that Advertising is Dead (in which case someone had better go over and tell it, because last I saw it was dancing on the table and bragging as how it could still pull teenage blondes down the Coach and Horses).
Anyway. I saw an ad! On the Internet! How peculiar.
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