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Re:First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature by benologist on Thursday September 12, 2013 @04:00PM (#6376549)
Ghostery adds some weird play button you have to click to view the article, not sure what that is but it's new and annoying.
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Re:First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature by theon144 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @04:32PM (#6376747)
It's not.

The button is there to temporarily (or not) enable a tracker, when it's necessary for function - apparently, Ghostery decided the text is behind a tracker. It's strange though, I'm using Ghostery too (latest version), nothing enabled, and I didn't get the play button.

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Re:First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature by benologist on Thursday September 12, 2013 @05:05PM (#6376937)
You're right, they did decide it's an ad - the div all the text in has the id "intelliTXT", who do that annoying thing were individual words become advertisements if you mouse over them.
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