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I'm not that old and yet old enough to remember internets before ad-supported free content, which was just infinitely better.


I've been on the internet since the mid 90s and that entire time it has relied on ad supported free content.


Yeah, my first ad blocker was "AdSubtract" in ~2000: https://paulenglish.com/intermute.html




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