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But... reverse psychology works? Wouldn't people be curious what's behind the "curtain"?


A better test ad would be something that looks like an obscure website failure/error message, like "404 Ad Not Found 18afe4481".

Or even just a copy of the placeholder image $POPULAR_BROWSER uses when an <img> link is broken.


Yea, there's some of that.




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