RedNeckGeek
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- Jan 1, 2011
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- Butte County & Orcutt, California
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They're still showing up here regularly. FireFox browser on Mac laptop.
You won't get any ads with the Brave browser. The Internet was never designed to be a forced commercial. U...
I would much rather pay a subscription than look at ads. With a subscription, I am in control of what I consume. With ads, it is whatever the ad company wants you to to consume.And the internet was never designed to have 99% of the content that is now on it. The only reason we can have most of the useful content is either subscriptions or (like this site) advertising. There still is no such thing as a free lunch.
I pay a subscription to my local newspaper, and they run so many ads that the articles sometimes won't load properly. Now they are asking for donations...I would much rather pay a subscription than look at ads. With a subscription, I am in control of what I consume. With ads, it is whatever the ad company wants you to to consume.
We're asking for support during our year-end sustainability campaign because local news organizations have been gutted over the past 20-plus years.
There was a time when the only outlet for advertising was newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. So, one advertising pie with 4 slices. Newspapers generally got the largest slice.I pay a subscription to my local newspaper, and they run so many ads that the articles sometimes won't load properly. Now they are asking for donations...