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Old 09-18-2007, 04:45 PM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by servoisgod View Post
I hate having something forced upon me. (Ads, In-line text, flash crap...)
Actually, nothing is being forced on you - you're making it sound like my site has hijacked your browser home page. You're choosing to come here, access my server, use my resources, read the news, and be a part of this community.

Being ticked off that a Web site you're choosing to visit is showing you ads would be like going into a store and being angry at the music they're playing - it's part of what you get when you walk in the door. If you don't like it, there are other stores.

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Originally Posted by servoisgod View Post
It's the Internet and I choose how I like to us it.
Attitudes like this always make me chuckle because if there was no advertising 95% of the Internet would vanish overnight - then where would you go? The only sites left would be the big corporate sites that make their money in the physical world and could afford to underwrite their ad-free Web sites. Not every site out there can use the Wikipedia model of surviving off donations. I'm extremely grateful that people like you are in the small minority.
 
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