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> No. What's hurting your edit:employer's revenue is years of blinking GIFs, auto-play videos and misleading links thrown between paragraphs. That's the first reason why I started using ad-blockers 15 years ago. The privacy issue is a recent thing.

I don't know what you read, but blinking GIFs and misleading links are only on sketchy or adult-themed sites.

As for the auto-play videos, that was a direct response to the declining value of print ads. If they can get people to play the videos, they can sell video advertising.



blinking gifs and misleading links were par for the course 15 years ago.




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