Summary: Users have learned to ignore content that resembles ads, is close to ads, or appears in locations traditionally dedicated to ads. Banner blindness is a long-known web user behavior: it describes people’s tendency to ignore page elements that they perceive (correctly or incorrectly) to be ads. And, while webpage patterns and types of advertisements have evolved, banner blindness is still p
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