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I have zero patience for fools who are allegedly knowledge workers, yet complain about popups and ads in the year 2024.

The ads are obnoxious, but they are there for the plebs, and we need to put obnoxious ads the faces of plebs to fund the internet. If you are not a pleb, you already have an adblocking solution installed, so please use it. If however, you are a pleb, please consume mass quantities of the product which is being advertised. There are a lot of adware developers who are counting on you to buy their next Porsche.

Or, invent a decent micropayent solution so we can get rid of the damn ads.



Or how about pop-ups not take over my screen? I'm on a work computer without an ad blocker.


Or you can not complain about a dismissable popup on quality article being presented to you for free.


It wasn't dismissible; I had to force quit the browser.


Get back to work Brian.




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