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Then google will use text to show ads.


Isn't Ubuntu doing that for at least 3 years or so in terminal during system update?


Text based ads would be less distracting.


Not if they're inline and you've read an ad before you realized it. Like a YouTube sponsor segment. lol


Fair. However, text based ads are also very easy to filter out using some sort of extension no?


Yeah, I actually use NordVPN (this comment’s sponsor) for this.


Remembering when Google only served text based ads.




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