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A comment on Ask HN: Would you sign an anti-ad pledge?.

Re:Ask HN: Would you sign an anti-ad pledge? by DanBC on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:36PM (#19685742)
Have you heard of the Boulder Pledge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert#Personal_life

> During a 1996 panel at the University of Colorado Boulder's Conference on World Affairs, Ebert coined the Boulder Pledge, by which he vowed never to purchase anything offered through the result of an unsolicited email message, or to forward chain emails or mass emails to others

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Re:Ask HN: Would you sign an anti-ad pledge? by evanwarfel on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:58PM (#19685910)
I have not heard of the Boulder Pledge, thanks for linking to it. I imagine Roger Ebert was on the receiving end of a lot of unsolicited offers, being a public figure and all.
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