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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by mikestew on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:38PM (#18078357)
All the larger newspagers like WaPo and NYT are also good about this too.

The ads are not malicious, granted, but in the case of NYT at least they're still "blinky". They get blocked at the Pi-hole now. I do subscribe, however. I'd like to turn the ads back on because I view the NYT to be a quality publication, but I'm not going to have something moving out of the corner of my eye while I try to read the paper.

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by freeone3000 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:56PM (#18081829)
What in the world does your subscription pay for, if you still get advertisements on the New York Times?
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by mikestew on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:45AM (#18082153)
Same thing my subscription pays for if I get the dead tree edition: ads sprinkled in with the news. Right or wrong, it's not like there isn't 100 year old precedent for this.
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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by michaelt on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:24AM (#18082616)
Right, but if you've already paid I don't see why you'd want to turn ads back on? You've already fulfilled your moral duty to reward them.
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