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Honestly once you learn the truth about their finances their banner campaign are actually the absolute pits of advertising and the most deceptive and emotionally manipulative type of advertising going.

Laughable to claim wikipedia is "ad free" just because the one ad is for wikipedia.

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I completely agree that their campaigns are distasteful for a number of reasons, but I think the original point was more that the lack of ad slots for sale has prevented the site from turning into the addiction optimized hellsite that most websites have become now

I like that they're up front about it. They also didn't pollute their own content with indistinguishable ads.

Also I've been using adblocks for so long, the only ads I see are ones that pollute the content. So yay wikipedia.

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