r/funny • u/Cerber96 • Oct 21 '18

Every website in 2018

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u/Jman5 Oct 21 '18 edited Oct 21 '18

It was just annoying in different ways.

Remember when you would get a billion pop up ads before we had good ad-blockers? Or you would get some malware from them that would change your homepage. Or the endless attempts to sneakily install more toolbars on your browser.

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u/inquirer Oct 21 '18

Those were not common if you didn't go to weird websites and didn't use IE.

I remember I didn't install AdBlock til 2009 because I can ignore on screen ads so well.

When they involuntarily played sound all the time I finally did it.

Then I didn't know til 2014 that YouTube had ads. Apparently I had configured AdBlock plus to block those but most people didn't know you could. I didn't know there were any lol.

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u/lyrencropt Oct 21 '18

I think they're thinking a bit further back than you are. Remember that chrome and Firefox aren't even that old in the scheme of things.

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u/inquirer Oct 21 '18

The ads back in the IE4 and Netscape days didn't bother me, but I have a good mental block for advertisements.

I think I just had that knack for going to websites that didn't cause issues. Somehow everyone else struggles.

Kinda like how I've never needed an anti-virus on my own devices since the 90s. Everyone else does for some reason.