"banner blindness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-banner blindness.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Coined by Jan Panero Benway and David M. Lane for their 1998 paper Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} banner blindness (uncountable)
  1. A tendency to ignore banner ads and similar-looking banners on websites. Wikipedia link: banner blindness Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Internet Translations (desensitization to attention-attracting means): bannerisokeus (Finnish), невосприимчивость к рекламным объявлениям (nevospriimčivostʹ k reklamnym obʺjavlenijam) (Russian), баннерная слепота́ (bannernaja slepotá) [special] (Russian), banner blindness (Spanish), ceguera a banner (Spanish), bannerblindhet [common-gender] (Swedish)

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