# Ads ruining the Straight Dope.

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**Created:** [June 12, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-ruining-the-straight-dope/690595 "2014-06-12T02:17:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-ruining-the-straight-dope/690595/41 "2014-06-18T11:09:27Z")

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Yeah that’s what I was talking about. Spoofing a desktop browser also works but desktop sites are harder to use. On the other hand restrictions are also troublesome. Choose whichever is less inconvenient.

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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-ruining-the-straight-dope/690595/42 "2014-06-18T18:48:09Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> And the argument that, “well, then why don’t you buy a membership?”, well, like I’ve said before, that’s kind of a shitty business model. Buy a membership, or possibly be infected with malware? Yeah.
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> (I only kept mine up while you needed one to use the search engine, then after awhile I just let it lapse)

When was this? I remember pay to post, at which point I stopped coming here. I came back in maybe '07 or '08 out of curiosity and found that they scrapped that, and there was not a membership requirement to search at that time. So this was… '06ish?

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