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by oblib 3138 days ago
Years ago (mid-late `90s) I used to buy "MacWorld" magazine every month, which I enjoyed. Not long after the internet became a thing they did a "Best Web Browser" feature and gushed about "Netscape Navigator" to the point where I got suspicious because on the Mac it was truly awful. Not that there was anything better, but it was still crap.

That inspired me to comment on their AOL page that I thought they gushed too much and I mentioned that after reading it I had to wonder if they owned stock in Netscape. One their representatives came on and trashed me for insinuating such a thing and then their fan club piled on me and just reamed me over my comments but the very next month they had yet another article about it and this one began with a disclaimer saying they did own stock in Netscape.

That was it for me. I never bought another issue of it or anything else they published.