People don’t often click on banner ads these days—at least not ... that Google will make ad blocking part of its Chrome web browser are so ominous: Google, the largest beneficiary of web ...

1994: __Wired.com, then known as HotWired, invents the web banner ad. Go ahead, blame us. The Mosaic browser was just morphing into Netscape in 1994. And if you think ads slow down page loads now ...

Along with lists, quizzes, and cat videos–and, more recently, breaking news–BuzzFeed has long been known for its refusal to host those annoying banner and square ads that clutter the pages of ...

This is stupid because people are very unlikely to click on banner ads. The people who do tend to be poorer and less educated. A company called Solve Media – which places ads in CAPTCHAs – has ...