Bringing this up to the top.

Up front, I don't know if advertisers pay for ads sent or actually displayed. I.e., do they get some kind of feedback that someone's computer has an ad blocker installed and even though they sent the ad it doesn't count toward the site's revenue? Various sites will show a popup asking you to disable ad blocker, I assume because they don't get paid unless the ad is actually displayed on the user's screen.

But yeah, I agree with Rocky 100% - they might send us ads but we don't have to be bothered with them.

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