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"To continue reading this article you must be a Bloomberg Professional Service Subscriber"

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Ugh - Bloomberg buys Businessweek and then throws all of the content behind a paywall.

Here's a better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20140514054305/http://www.busine...


You could always have bought the content, and given it away for free. People need to eat and pay the rent yo.

I am fully supportive of anyone who wants to Kickstart content corpus purchases and then give that to the Internet Archive for WayBack inclusion.


People complain about ads on a website and how they have to use an ad-blocker and then the complain when they put stuff behind a paywall. Can't have it both ways, people deserve to be paid for good journalism.


To be honest, those who use ad blockers most likely are not the target audience for an ad payer.


Popup ad blocking is not the problem. There's no need for popup ads at all - its a scummy practice.


I didnt mention pop up ads, just ads.


Do ad blockers block non-popup ads?


Yes




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