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Can't wait 'til adblockers start blocking sponsored content.

In all seriousness, a browser extension that flags sponsored content would be great.

New plan: Block any article that mentions a company or trademark. :p

So that eliminates almost all the financial stories, all the hardware and software reviews, and all the sports coverage, just for starters ;-)

If you think about it, this is not a gigantic loss, if you are interested in insights and not news.

Where do you think insights come from? Are they generated spontaneously out of thin air in the absence of facts?

Of course insights are generated by facts.

But what I am interested in is the insights, not necessary the facts that led to them being created (as long as I trust the author who converted facts into insights).

So I am happy to read an article about the evolution of (random example) people's savings and investing behaviour. I don't necessarily need name dropping of the fintech unicorns who are involved with making it happen.

This is like wanting a history of movies that doesn't mention any movies.

You're welcome to try it (1). That's a good way to prove yourself wrong ;-)

(1) I've done quite a bit of it myself.

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