Ads ruining the Straight Dope.

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.

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?