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   Kerf73 | Nov 21, 2020 10:55pm | #1

   Usually when you pay a premium the ads are REMOVED.

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   lat_axe | Nov 22, 2020 05:12am | #2

   I don't see any adverts - other than those for FWW products - on this website, whether I'm logged in or not. But I use a browser-based ad-blocker app, as well as the various opt-out filters that come with the browser (Chrome) itself.

   Organisations that allow 3rd party adverts on their website generally do so to make money. Some claim that this is what allows the website's "free" facilities to be so. Personally I detest adverts, which I see as insulting attempts to exploit me. (No one is immune to their blandishments, whatever we think). So - if I can't get rid of the adverts with a small fee I'm willing to pay, or with an ad-blocker, I don't go there.

   Lataxe

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   esch5995 | Nov 22, 2020 08:07am | #3

   The only thing I would add, no pun intended, is the publishing business is getting tougher and tougher to survive in and if ads on the site is what it takes to insure that FW continues to exist it is a price I'm willing to pay as long as they don't start using those annoying pop-up windows that constantly appear as you scroll through an article and the content is mostly Woodworking related.

   The app is far from perfect but the content is still some of the best related to Woodworking so I can live with it.

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   Jkatzowitz | Nov 22, 2020 08:51am | #4

   More than a few times, when I've clicked on a Discussion Forum topic, I was immediately transported to an advert page. At first I thought I had inadvertently hit a link to that ad but there was nothing there. I don't know if it's a FWW issue or a browser issue.

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   weymouth2 | Nov 22, 2020 09:09am | #5

   Like politics and “News”, I’ve become numb to ads. As a human in 2020, it’s a cost of doing business.

   Agree with esch5995 though...I think FW is great and I’m willing to “pay” for ads (in addition to my unlimited membership).

   Neal

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   lat_axe | Nov 22, 2020 09:26am | #6

   Wey,

   None of us are immune to the things you mention - politics, news and adverts. They are constructed to pierce and suborn our psyches and they're very, very good at it.

   Personally I believe the only antidote is to exclude such damaging stuff from our minds - which in practice means we should be able to not-see/hear about politics, news and adverts if we choose.

   Is this possible in the modern world? Not really but it's a matter of degree. Certain lifestyles can reduce the amount of mind-wrecking memetic toxins to an insignificant dribble.

   Like you, I'm willing to pay for some information sources if they're advert-free and without other substitutes of axe-grinding opinions for less partisan descriptions of reality. But I'm not willing to pay twice. I won't pay more to FWW besides the $99 a year I already pay them if they wanted that for an advert-free experience.

   Some adverts remain fairly factual in nature, with little or no glamour-lies overlaid just to get money from dupes. Woodworking adverts tend to be less Svengali-like than, say, adverts for cars that will "make you a man" able to drive dangerously with no consequences; and face goos that will apparently turn you into an irresistible siren if you slap them on incessantly.

   Mind, I do like to point and hoot at any WW adverts that tend to the glamour-lie. Happily they are few and far between. I confine myself to a small rant, now & then, about those TSOs (Tool-Shaped-Objects) that are marketed as functional when they're .... not.

   Lataxe

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   palmbay_jim | Nov 22, 2020 11:48am | #7

   Run an ad blocker I use Ad Block and I get no ads at all