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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by hanser:<br>Countdown to wankers pissing about advertising on the front page...<br><br>...<br>..<br>. </div>
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<br><br>Countdown to wankers pissing about wankers pissing about advertising on the front page...<br><br>But seriously, I'm a paying subscriber and I have been for a while now...there should be an opt-out for this. </div>
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<br><br>There is. It is called not clicking the link. It's kinda like not visiting the *chan boards unless you have something there you want to see. Barging in and complaining about them when you can just ignore them is quite simply a waste of your energy.<br><br>This post is brought to you by dial soap. </div>
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<br><br>Oh come the fuck on. "Its just like ignoring the TV when it displays ads!" -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif --<br><br>Arstechnica isn't promoting this ad* because it wants people who aren't interested to ignore it. No, its trying to get a stumbling job search service off the ground and in the process raise more funds for itself. Which is perfectly fine, but let me (a paying subscriber) ignore it. Or raise the subscriber rate to something acceptable so that I can pay to ignore these ads.<br><br>*And it is an ad. </div>
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<br><br>You can't ignore tv commercials [exception, tivo], but you can move your mouse the half inch to go to the next article in question, thus bypassing this article. Your analogy fails.