What started the adblocker nag trend?

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Adblockers have been around for over a decade, yet only in the past year or two you have seen them everywhere. What started the trend?

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Not that many people use ad blockers. I'm not sure what the point of people worrying about it is. I now use noscript due to the annoyances created by the adblocker nag screens.

Forbes did. And it apparently works?

Or not? https://thestack.com/world/2016/04/21/sites-that-block-adblo...

Trends in Alexa rank are not a reliable metric, unfortunately.

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