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Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by JoshTriplett on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:01PM (#11035301)
> If all your options are terrible, you might as well use the terrible option with the largest ROI, right?

One of the options is "stop running ads". Why is a "site for public safety communications" running ads at all?

Public safety announcement: block all ads to make your browsing much safer. Use Adblock Plus (with so-called "acceptable ads" turned off) or uBlock Origin.

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Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by spdustin on Thursday February 04, 2016 @01:15PM (#11035942)
He's not running a public safety institution, he runs a site that has live audio streams from police / emergency scanners.

(incidentally, Lindsay, I've used http://www.radioreference.com to learn a great deal about Software Defined Radio, and I occasionally listen to various Illinois streams on http://www.broadcastify.com - thanks for running these sites!)

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Re:No More Deceptive Download Buttons by JoshTriplett on Thursday February 04, 2016 @05:24PM (#11037785)
> He's not running a public safety institution, he runs a site that has live audio streams from police / emergency scanners.

Thanks for the clarification; that makes more sense.

I'd still echo the comments from elsewhere in the thread about not doing business with a vendor with shady practices just because other vendors do no better.

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