Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe first one I’ve ever heard of was ad block plus, which initially released October 23, 2005.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus
But sure I’m sure you’ve been using adblockers since 1992
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
10 seconds of googling:
adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blocking-history.html
i mean the fact its called adblock plus is kind of a give away that it probably wasnt the first
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I already looked this up because I was curious. The other person had no interest in an actual conversation so I didn’t see the point in reporting back. Yes I was slightly wrong, but believe it or not I’m capable of questioning myself and spending a few seconds to check up on something.
I will say that despite being a lifelong computer nerd, I don’t think I had even heard of anyone using an ad blocker until probably 2006 or 2007. To say “I haven’t seen an ad in decades” is a statement that just sounds false. It cannot possibly be literally true, so that primed me not to believe them.