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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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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