[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 21:33:58 UTC 2008


On 20/03/2008, Judson Dunn <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > Brion Vibber wrote:
>  >  > White Cat wrote:

>  >  >> What kind of an encyclopedia advertises Toyoto on an article on Ford or vice
>  >  >> versa?

>  >  > Britannica! :)
>  >  > http://leuksman.com/log/2008/03/19/ads-on-encyclopedias/

>  >  Thumb up Brion !

> Yes, yikes. I'm sure the pro, and anti ad people alike can agree that
>  nothing like that screenshot should ever happen on Wikipedia! I'd like
>  to think we have some class.
>  Seriously, zoom in on that shot if you haven't.


Euwww. The sort of page that has a paragraph of content in the middle
of a pile of garish ads? I can see why our current lack of ads is so
striking to someone suffering Internet ad fatigue ...

(Adblock. Best Firefox extension ever.)


- d.



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