

You also have creepy companies like Facebook and Google following your every move on the internet. It’s not just popup ads that annoy people. The rise of Brave, a privacy focused browser In an ideal world we wouldn’t need ads but unfortunately in countries like Zimbabwe programs like Adsense are still the easiest way to monetise online content so just about every site or blog you visit has them. Now thanks to the advent of Adblock the advertisement industry has come up with standards that publishers can use without ruining things for their readers. Videos autoplaying everywhere and it would sometimes take you five minutes to get a handle on things. Before extensions like Adblock Plus became popular the internet was like a Wild-West with spammy advertisements launching a dozen popup windows as soon as you landed on the home page of some sites. If you hate ads, especially popup ads, you should know that things are better now. Nobody needs to tell me about how ads are bad and how they break the browsing experience.
