# A pre-emptive advertising peeve

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**Created:** [January 1, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-advertising-peeve/741904 "2016-01-01T15:23:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pre-emptive-advertising-peeve/741904/1 "2016-01-01T15:23:37Z")

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As a subscriber, I don’t see ads on this board, but [I do see them on other boards](http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1887012), and Amazon are currently pushing out giant ads, which take up most of the screen.

I’m sure non-subscribers would appreciate it if this ad were pre-emptively blocked.

Here’s the offending url

[noparse][http://www.amazon.com/tryprimefree/ref=as\_sl\_pc\_tf\_lc?&tag=hardfocom-20&camp=224849&creative=511281&linkCode=ur1&adid=1HH4P2VY9YSB19VDBCQQ&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fhardforum.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1887012[/noparse]](http://www.amazon.com/tryprimefree/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?&tag=hardfocom-20&camp=224849&creative=511281&linkCode=ur1&adid=1HH4P2VY9YSB19VDBCQQ&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fhardforum.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D1887012%5B/noparse%5D)