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Posted Sep 4, 2007 13:55 UTC (Tue) by vondo (guest, #256)
Parent article: LWN advertising update

I lasted through banner ads, flash ads, inline block ads, everything until certain tech sites came up with this stupid in-text ad idea. THEN I got Adblock and the ruleset for it. Now I hardly see anything, but that wasn't my intent. These in-text ads are just that annoying. It was either block them or quit using those sites. Think about that for a second, Jon.

Not to mention, that at least back then, it might highlight the words "disk drive" and take you to a buy.com page where you could buy a disk drive. Real useful, right? Maybe they've gotten better in the last two years, but I for one don't intend to find out.

I've let my LWN subscription lapse, but I'm not seeing anything different in the articles, so Adblock must be working.

I like this site and I will probably re-subscribe in the future, but I refuse to pay to make annoying ads go away. I pay because I find the content interesting whether or not I can get it free.