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Re:Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality... by _fs on Monday October 14, 2013 @12:33PM (#6548175)
That popup at the end of the article totally broke my concentration about the subject at hand. I quickly fell from thought to disgust when the popup came up and covered 1/4 of the screen. Then I backed out of the site. Why do people insist on getting their users onboard a newsletter for a blog like this?
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Re:Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality... by davelocity on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:29PM (#6548786)
because it works. the site owner knows it's obnoxious, but the numbers justify the annoyance.
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Re:Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality... by rhizome on Monday October 14, 2013 @03:07PM (#6549001)
Does it really, though? Any hard numbers to back up the "it works"?
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