Ads mostly don't wear out; wear-out is usually a frequency problem
Ads mostly don't wear out; when they do it is slowly, and they rarely run long enough for it to matter. The exceptions are 'new news' performance ads such as a sale on Thursday. Complaints of being fed up with an ad are usually a frequency problem, not a property of the ad.
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