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It's usually easy to click the 'web' link on the top of the discussions page and follow the first result on google.

I believe there have been many discussion on the utility of paywalled articles and I believe the discussion has mostly settled on allowing it as long as it is easy to circumvent.

OT: actually interesting to see how the author worked backwards to understand why he is receiving adds. Still: all this, and still they keep showing adds for stuff I recently bought...



Showing ads for stuff you recently bought happens to be extremely valuable advertising.

Sometimes the first order doesn’t arrive, or you want another one for the office... You think the chances of that are low, but they are still far better than showing you a generic ad.


Rarely would the author of an article have any kind of control over the advertising shown on the page.




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