traditionally

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   From the beginning.

   The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

2. 2
   adv

   according to tradition

3. 3
   adv

   In a traditional manner.

Etymology

From traditional + -ly.