How can ads and Pop-Ups still appear even when i’m using AdBlock?

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These ads that appear even when i’m using adblock often appear when i click anywhere in a page, leading to the ad automatically popping up in another tab. Oftentimes it will be just as simple as clicking a link before my screen is filled with random pop-ups. Heck, sometimes it won’t even stop the backgrounds ads in download websites. How is this possible? Isn’t AdBlock meant to stop every advertisement from appearing?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There’s a cycle:

Ad technology gets invented.

People find it annoying and/or a security risk.

Ad blockers are written to suppress it.

A new ad technology gets invented to evade the ad blockers.

Repeat for many iterations.

AdBlock is a previous generation of blocking technology, it was once so ubiquitous that ad injection schemes were written just to get around it.

You may want to get a more up to date ad blocker every few years.

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