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		nevinera on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, ... We've been trained to ignore enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting things by decades on the internet.

sph on July 7, 2022 [–]

And it made me notice that StackOverflow has a banner on top. I literally have never known there was a search bar up there.

I think more than ignoring banners, we've become really good at just focusing at the content div. A bit like the Reader Mode in your browser.

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