A KILLING IN ADVERTISING
Posted on February 2nd, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Over 40 million people have downloaded “AdBlock,” a free program for blocking ads on the web. We were skeptical initially but are now converts. Often, when a web site comes in slowly it’s because it’s loading ads. Lately, Joy’s computer has been so slow, she could put on water for tea and come back before the site had loaded. Then she loaded Adblock, and it helped. It counts the ads it kills and gives you totals; it knocked off 2,500 in the first week. What made Bob turn to AdBlock was pants. He bought some pants online and by the next day the entire clothing business had ads for pants on whatever web site he called up. It was clear […]
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